Stebbins, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buttonwillow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93314. The Survey maps it on the Rio Bravo quadrangle.

Stebbins 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 Stebbins, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Stebbins, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1910 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000
1912 USGS Buena Vista Lake quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1931 USGS Rio Bravo quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1942 USGS Buttonwillow quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Rio Bravo quadrangle1:24000, 5 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
1981 USGS Taft quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stebbins between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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	6
Smoking	1
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
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central California District	TUPMAN 3
7 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kern County Fire Department	not named
22 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kern County Fire Department	not named
21 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
12 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kern County Fire Department	not named
5 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kern County Fire Department	not named
12 May 2006	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 April 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Kern County Fire Department	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stebbins: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Grizzly Gulch	Gold, Silver	Past 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rio Bravo	1.3 miles	27
Calders Corner	3.7 miles	27
Mexican Colony	5.0 miles	27
Bowerbank	5.0 miles	25
Cherokee Strip	5.1 miles	27
Smith Corner	5.4 miles	27
Thomas Lane	5.9 miles	27
Hights Corner	6.5 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2804562. 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.