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San Emidio, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Kern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93311. It stands on Bitter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pentland quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

San Emidio 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 San Emidio, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of San Emidio, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of San Emidio between 1995 and 2020, burning about 586 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
27 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use100 acresCentral California DistrictAMERICAN
13 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0852
5 August 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0836
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresCentral California DistrictLAKE
12 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use20 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0897
9 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0533
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0337
27 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0526

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of San Emidio: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Buena Vista LakeGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
J. W. Brown Rock PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Kyan (historical)3.1 miles28
Pentland3.6 miles26
Hazelton5.6 miles23
Maricopa5.7 miles23
Levee (historical)6.7 miles26
Millux8.2 miles26
South Taft8.5 miles24
Taft8.7 miles24

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 Q7413807The 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 1661378. 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.