Monolith, California

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1992

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.

• 1915 USGS Mojave quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1943 USGS Tehachapi quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 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
• 1966 USGS Monolith quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Tehachapi quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Monolith quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Monolith between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,018 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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:

• Eric (historical)
• Cameron
• Sullivan (historical)
• Mountain Meadows
• Summit
• Tehachapi

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Monolith: 13 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monolith in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm 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 255907. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.