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Pippin Corner, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Atascadero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93453. It stands on Pozo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Santa Margarita Lake quadrangle.

Pippin Corner within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1922 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pippin Corner, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pippin Corner, surveyed 1922

Compare 1922 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Pippin Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,425 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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 2016Recreation and ceremony1.7 acresLos Padres National ForestPOZO 2
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLos Padres National ForestTROUT
19 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitPARKHILL
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRIVER
8 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRINCONADA
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitLIGHTNING
29 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitHIGH
28 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPOZO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pippin Corner: 6 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Manganese, Uranium. 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
Santa Margarita ProspectsUraniumProspect
Egenes DepositManganeseOccurrence
Egenes ProspectManganeseOccurrence1942
Mercury Belle MineMercuryProspect
ProspectsMercuryProspect
RinconadaMercuryPast Producer1872
Rinconada MineMercuryPast Producer1872
Unnamed ProspectMercuryProspect
Unnamed ProspectMercuryProspect
Unnamed ProspectsMercuryProspect

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo 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
Pozo1.4 miles22
Musick (historical)6.3 miles22
Navajo (historical)8.5 miles21
Reeves Place10.5 miles23
Hathaway Place10.6 miles23
La Panza10.8 miles23
Renshaw Place11.5 miles23
Hubert Place11.5 miles23

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 Q122566307The 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 252957. 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.