Reef Station, California

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1994

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.

• 1914 USGS Cholame quadrangle1:125000
• 1915 USGS Cholame quadrangle1:125000
• 1917 USGS Cholame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1930 USGS Kettleman Plain quadrangle1:31680
• 1933 USGS Kettleman Plain quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Kettleman Plain quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Kettleman Plain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
• 1989 USGS Paso Robles quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Kettleman Plain quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Reef Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,158 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Reef Station: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Kings County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661298. 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.