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One Hundred Palms, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coachella Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92274. The Survey maps it on the Valerie quadrangle.

One Hundred Palms within Riverside County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of One Hundred Palms, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of One Hundred Palms, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

462 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 462 fires within 5 miles of One Hundred Palms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,942 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined244
Debris and open burning74
Arson/incendiarism48
Equipment and vehicle use42
Smoking18
Recreation and ceremony15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresRiverside UnitLOCAL
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLOCAL
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHARRISON ST THER
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2716
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitHY 86S / AVE 66
30 September 2010Natural1.0 acresSouthern California AgencyJACKSON ST THER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Valerie0.6 miles28
Martinez1.0 miles28
Mecca5.1 miles28
Vista Santa Rosa5.1 miles30
Sandy Korner5.6 miles30
Thermal5.7 miles30
Oasis7.7 miles29
Coachella8.2 miles30

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 Q122570112The 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 1661147. 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.