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Rosedale, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rosedale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93312. The Survey maps it on the Rosedale quadrangle. 18,639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 364 feet above sea level.

Rosedale within Kern County

Then and now

1910 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rosedale, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Rosedale, surveyed 1910

Population over time

2 figures

Rosedale grew from 14,058 to 18,639 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
201014,058
202018,639+4,581 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

93 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Rosedale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning5
Smoking5

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
24 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
17 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
16 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rosedale: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Caulay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kern River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kern County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosedale in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2024Funnel CloudRosedale-Broadcast media report of a funnel cloud over Allen Rd. between Hageman Rd. and Rosedale Hwy. in Bakersfield.
August 2023FloodRosedale-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Kratzmeyer Rd. and Nord Ave.
December 2022FloodRosedale-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Calloway Dr. underneath the railroad bridge north of Slinker Dr.

Every storm recorded in Kern 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
Greenacres1.9 miles33
Fruitvale3.3 miles33
Una3.3 miles27
Quailwood3.8 miles27
Jastro3.9 miles33
Kern City4.3 miles27
Olde Stockdale4.4 miles27
Landco4.5 miles33

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 RosedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2267331The 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 1652784. 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.

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.