BlockRadnor, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Earlimart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93215. The Survey maps it on the Delano West quadrangle.
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 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.
- 1929 USGS Stone quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Earlimart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Delano West quadrangle1:24000, 5 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
338 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Radnor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,028 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 96 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 | 134 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 96 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 49 |
| Smoking | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | SOUTHERN PAC RR #35 |
| 7 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Tulare Unit | UNION PACIFIC#24 |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Tulare Unit | STATE OF CALIF #92 |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | ROBLES |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | STATE OF CALIFORNIA#79 |
| 4 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | ST. CAL 98 |
| 4 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | ST. CAL 99 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radnor in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Flood | Radnor | - | Broadcast media report of SR 99 being closed between Ave. 24 and Ave. 56 in Earlimart due to a breach in the White River. |
| June 2023 | Flood | Radnor | - | California Highway Patrol reported one foot of standing water on all three lanes of northbound SR 99. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656601. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.