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Moonlight Rim, California

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Riverside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92555. The Survey maps it on the Sunnymead quadrangle.

Moonlight Rim within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moonlight Rim, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Moonlight Rim, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 37 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

1,025 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,025 fires within 5 miles of Moonlight Rim between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,349 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 115 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined489
Equipment and vehicle use196
Arson/incendiarism115
Misuse of fire by a minor100
Smoking50
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony17
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural9
Firearms and explosives use4

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitMCABEE AV MOVA
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitEUCALYPTUS AV MOVA
9 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance293 acresSan Bernardino UnitCANYON
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitHAZELCREST CT MOVA
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitWINDEMERE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionIRONWOOD AV MOVA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitLASSELLE
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL FALSE ALARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Moonlight Rim: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nason Street PitGraniteProducer
Nason Street PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside 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
El Casco2.5 miles38
Serrano Heights2.6 miles37
Ordway2.9 miles39
Moreno3.1 miles37
Moreno Knolls3.6 miles38
Moreno Valley4.2 miles37
Sunnymead4.8 miles37
Hinda5.4 miles38

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 Q122546568The 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 1844800. 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.