BlockQuality, California
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Delano-McFarland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93215. It lies near Rag Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Richgrove quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1929 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1929 USGS Richgrove quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Terra Bella quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Richgrove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Delano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
89 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Quality between 1992 and 2018, burning about 321 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Tulare Unit | RAILROAD |
| 20 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Tulare Unit | DELGADO |
| 14 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Tulare Unit | DHILLON |
| 14 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | SANTILLANO |
| 5 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TUALRE COUNTY #53 |
| 30 August 1993 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Tulare Unit | OLTMAN |
| 14 August 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | VERA |
| 11 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Tulare Unit | STATE 55 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q7268710 | 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 1661270. 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.