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Sageland, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lake Isabella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93283. It lies near Bright Star Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Pinyon Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,026 feet above sea level.

Sageland within Kern County

Then and now

1915 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sageland, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Sageland, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sageland between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
30 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSAGELAND
13 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictCENTER
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 July 2001Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictST JOHNS
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSUNSET
17 July 1994Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictDOVE
8 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictSORRELL
27 May 1999Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictMAGIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Sageland: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 3 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Gold, Antimony, Arsenic, Copper, Silver, Copper. 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
Burning Moscow MineGold, CopperPast Producer
St. John MineLead, Gold, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1875
Upper Sageland ProspectGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Esperanza MineGoldPast Producer
Gold PeakGoldProducer
Gold Peak MineGoldPast Producer
Kelso Creek PlacersGoldProducerPlacer
Kelso Creek PlacersGoldPast Producer
Mojave Mining and Milling CoGoldProducer
Monarch ProspectGoldProducer

Every working 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
Claraville6.7 miles28
Moreland Mill7.8 miles27
Shady Rest (historical)8.1 miles28
Inmans (historical)8.2 miles28
Burton Mill10.4 miles28
Little Dixie (historical)11.2 miles26
Piute (historical)11.4 miles26
Bella Vista13.2 miles28

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 SagelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7399180The 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 252974. 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.