Mexican Colony, California

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1981

Mexican Colony grew from 281 to 283 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1910 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000
• 1912 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1931 USGS Rio Bravo quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1942 USGS Buttonwillow quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Rio Bravo quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Taft quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Mexican Colony between 2005 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cherokee Strip
• Shafter
• Smith Corner
• North Shafter
• Thomas Lane
• Myricks Corner

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mexican Colony: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Kern County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661019. 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.