BlockSpicer City, California
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Wasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93206. The Survey maps it on the Semitropic quadrangle. It stands 246 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1914 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 79 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
13 surveys from 24 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.
- 1914 USGS Lost Hills quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1927 USGS Semitropic quadrangle1:31680
- 1931 USGS Goose Lake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Hart Station quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Goose Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Semitropic quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Spicer City between 1999 and 2019, burning about 190 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.7 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 3 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | TUPMAN 2 |
| 28 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 86 acres | Central California District | BACK |
| 16 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 0014 |
| 11 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 86 acres | Central California District | ELK 2 |
| 27 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 4 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Triangle | 6.2 miles | 22 | |
| Lokern | 7.6 miles | 24 | |
| Semitropic | 8.6 miles | 24 | |
| Lost Hills | 9.3 miles | 25 | |
| Buttonwillow | 10.0 miles | 25 | |
| North Belridge | 10.3 miles | 24 | |
| Kilowatt | 10.9 miles | 25 | |
| Leonards (historical) | 11.2 miles | 19 |
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 Spicer City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7576935 | The 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 1661489. 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.