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Pearsonville, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lone Pine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93527. It lies near Noname Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Pearsonville quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,513 feet above sea level.

Pearsonville within Inyo County

Then and now

1915 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pearsonville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Pearsonville, surveyed 1915

Population over time

2 figures

Pearsonville fell from 17 to 8 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201017
20208-9 (-53%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Pearsonville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
19 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert District5 MILE
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBIG
5 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLOG
11 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDODGE
1 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSAND
31 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictTUNDRA
30 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictPOND
24 July 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pearsonville: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Giraud MineCopperProspect
Mytech Placer ProspectGoldOccurrence
Nine Mile CanyonFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Midnite GlowTungstenProspect
Ms 235Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
No Name CreekTungstenProspect
Sand Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Inyo 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
Linnie1.6 miles23
Little Lake8.9 miles23
Coso12.0 miles23
Sykes16.3 miles28
Coso Junction16.7 miles28
Dunmovin19.8 miles28
Talus19.8 miles28
Haiwee23.9 miles28

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.

Wikipedia article on PearsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2176340The 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 1666984. 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.