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.
Then and now
1915 to 1993The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresPearsonville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | |
| 2020 | 8 | -9 (-53%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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.
- 1915 USGS Searles Lake quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Trona quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Trona quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Trona quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Little Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Trona quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Trona quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Pearsonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Ridgecrest quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | 5 MILE |
| 1 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | BIG |
| 5 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | California Desert District | LOG |
| 11 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Desert District | DODGE |
| 1 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | SAND |
| 31 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | TUNDRA |
| 30 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Desert District | POND |
| 24 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | California Desert District | SAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giraud Mine | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Mytech Placer Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Nine Mile Canyon | Feldspar, Quartz | Past Producer | ||
| Midnite Glow | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Ms 235 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| No Name Creek | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Sand Canyon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linnie | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Little Lake | 8.9 miles | 23 | |
| Coso | 12.0 miles | 23 | |
| Sykes | 16.3 miles | 28 | |
| Coso Junction | 16.7 miles | 28 | |
| Dunmovin | 19.8 miles | 28 | |
| Talus | 19.8 miles | 28 | |
| Haiwee | 23.9 miles | 28 |
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 Pearsonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2176340 | 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 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.








