BlockMartinus Corner, California
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the San Ardo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93932. The Survey maps it on the Williams Hill quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1919 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Williams Hill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Martinus Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,973 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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 use | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | YASUTAKE |
| 24 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | KELSE |
| 12 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | LOCKWOOD |
| 11 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | JOLON |
| 10 September 2010 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CROSS |
| 7 August 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU2903 |
| 30 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | LOCKWOOD JOLON RD / MARTI |
| 30 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Central California District | CHILI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockwood | 1.9 miles | 25 | |
| Jolon | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Hunter-Liggett | 8.0 miles | 25 | |
| Pleyto (historical) | 8.5 miles | 24 | |
| Pleyto | 8.6 miles | 24 | |
| Bryson | 9.3 miles | 27 | |
| Sans (historical) | 11.9 miles | 32 | |
| San Ardo | 12.6 miles | 25 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q6777257 | The 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 252934. 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.