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Missouri Triangle, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Kern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93251. The Survey maps it on the Belridge quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Missouri Triangle within Kern County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Missouri Triangle, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Missouri Triangle, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Missouri Triangle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 47,467 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use15 acresCentral California DistrictMOBIL
5 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictBELRIDGE
5 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distribution28 acresCentral California DistrictSTANDARD
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictRESERVE 2
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0353
20 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0371
20 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution113 acresCentral California DistrictSTANDARD
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0087

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Missouri Triangle: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Belridge Gypsum MinesGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Temblor Gypsum Co. DepositsGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Kern 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
Spicer City6.2 miles24
Reward8.1 miles22
Olig (historical)8.1 miles22
Lokern8.1 miles24
North Belridge9.1 miles24
McKittrick9.9 miles24
Asphalto (historical)10.4 miles24
Buttonwillow12.0 miles25

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 Missouri TriangleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6879761The 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 246037. 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.