Old Bailey Place, California

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It stands on Bailey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bailey Ridge quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Old Bailey Place within Mendocino County

Then and now

1943 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Old Bailey Place, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Old Bailey Place, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1991 USGS Bailey Ridge quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Old Bailey Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,638 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	NASH
18 September 2001	Smoking	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	BAILEY
8 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	HOLMES
19 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	O'DONNELL
14 August 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	STUMP
1 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Mendocino Unit	MEADOW
7 July 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	EVANS #2
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,700 acres	Mendocino Unit	LOW GAP 1 LIGHTNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old Bailey Place: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	O'Brien Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Mendocino 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Navarro	3.3 miles	15
Reilly Heights	4.4 miles	15
Philbrick Mill	6.0 miles	12
Hendy Grove	6.4 miles	12
Montgomery	6.7 miles	12
Philo	7.3 miles	12
Orrs Springs	7.5 miles	12
Cameron	8.2 miles	14

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 Q7083413

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 1659286. 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.