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Pinon Hills Estates, California

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victorville-Hesperia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92372. The Survey maps it on the Mescal Creek quadrangle.

Pinon Hills Estates within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pinon Hills Estates, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pinon Hills Estates, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 37 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

357 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 357 fires within 5 miles of Pinon Hills Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,779 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined144
Debris and open burning47
Equipment and vehicle use44
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Natural29
Arson/incendiarism23
Smoking16
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks2

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionVALLE VISTA RD PHELAN
6 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitSMOKETREE
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitDEERHAVEN
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitTREE
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitSMOKETREE
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDUNCAN
28 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitTOKAY ST PINION_HILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino 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
Piñon Hills2.6 miles37
Phelan4.5 miles34
Deer Haven4.7 miles34
Yucca Inn4.8 miles34
Wildhorse Canyon5.8 miles38
Mountain Top Junction6.3 miles34
Wrightwood7.5 miles39
El Mirage9.1 miles22

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 Q122571565The 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 1841657. 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.