Oil Junction, California

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1981

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.

• 1906 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1910 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000
• 1912 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1930 USGS Oildale quadrangle1:31680
• 1935 USGS Oildale quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1942 USGS Bakersfield West quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Oildale quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
• 1978 USGS Oildale quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Taft quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 451 fires within 5 miles of Oil Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,562 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 59 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:

• Fruitvale
• Landco
• Oildale
• Seguro
• Jastro
• Prospero

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Oil Junction: 14 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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 246825. 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.