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Marshall Junction, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93619. It lies near Auberry Valley. The Survey maps it on the Millerton Lake East quadrangle. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Marshall Junction within Fresno County

Then and now

1912 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marshall Junction, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Marshall Junction, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Marshall Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,743 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined86
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural17
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitGOOSEBERRY
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictCAPITOL
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU 182
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictWITT
30 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitSTELZER
30 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral California DistrictBUGGY WHIP
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionROCK
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitSKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Marshall Junction: 17 unknowns, 10 past producers, 8 prospects, 5 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Kyanite, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
One and Two Gold HillGold, SilverPast Producer
Reported OccurrenceKyaniteOccurrence
W H ChildersFeldsparProducer
Yellow AstorGold, Tin, TungstenPast Producer
Big OakTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Big OakTungstenProducer
Big OakTungstenProspect
Achsah D. MineGoldProspect
Bessie H.GoldPast ProducerGold
Bessie H. MineGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
McKenzie Spring (historical)3.2 miles21
Prather3.3 miles29
Sparkville (historical)3.9 miles21
Sentinel (historical)5.3 miles26
Millerton5.4 miles20
Auberry6.4 miles26
New Auberry6.7 miles26
Shipp (historical)7.4 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Marshall JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6773663The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 263228. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.