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Poso Park, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Springville-Johnsondale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93260. It stands on Spear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Posey quadrangle. 9 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,662 feet above sea level.

Poso Park within Tulare County

Then and now

1936 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Poso Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Poso Park, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Poso Park grew from 9 to 9 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
20109
202090 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Poso Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined20
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestSUGAR
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestMEADOW
30 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSequoia National ForestSTARVATION
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestDEER
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestRABBIT
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictGRANITE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestPASS
23 September 2011Natural8.0 acresSequoia National ForestSUNDAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Poso Park: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, 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
Big Four No. 1UraniumUnknown
White River ClaimsMolybdenum, Copper, SilverOccurrenceMolybdenite
White River ProspectMolybdenum, Copper, SilverOccurrenceVein
Anita MayTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Anita MayTungstenProspect
Cadillac MineTungstenPast ProducerPyrite, Scheelite
Cadillac MineTungstenPast Producer
Thomas Eistrat PropertyTungstenOccurrence
TungstoreTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Tungstore MineTungstenPast Producer1929, 1932

Every working recorded in Tulare 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
Pleasant View0.5 miles22
Panorama Heights0.5 miles22
Balance Rock1.0 miles22
Sugarloaf Village1.0 miles22
Guernsey Mill1.9 miles22
Sugarloaf Saw Mill1.9 miles22
Idlewild2.0 miles22
Spear Creek Summer Home Tract2.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Poso ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11160109The 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 1661255. 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.