BlockNacimiento, California
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the San Ardo census division. It stands on Big Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Miguel quadrangle. It stands 636 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1919 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 70 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
10 surveys from 21 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 San Miguel quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS San Miguel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Miguel 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 San Miguel quadrangle1:62500
- 1989 USGS Paso Robles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
96 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Nacimiento between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,563 acres in total. 1 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | SIVILAY |
| 8 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | RIVER |
| 4 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | HWY 101 #12 |
| 3 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | DIXIE |
| 21 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | CROSS |
| 19 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | INDIAN |
| 18 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | EXLINE |
| 10 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | BRADLEY |
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.
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 Q6957242 | 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 1661084. 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.