Strand, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Greenfield-Panama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93314. The Survey maps it on the Stevens quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Strand 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 Strand (historical), surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Strand (historical), surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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
1929 USGS Stevens quadrangle1:31680
1932 USGS Stevens quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1942 USGS Bakersfield West quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Stevens quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Stevens quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Strand (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 72 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	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
9 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
18 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
11 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kern County Fire Department	not named
14 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	69 acres	Central California District	SEVEN
1 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 March 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Stevens	2.4 miles	28
Calders Corner	3.4 miles	27
Rosedale	5.0 miles	27
Rio Bravo	5.4 miles	27
Una	6.2 miles	27
Greenacres	6.6 miles	33
Stebbins	6.7 miles	27
Crome	7.1 miles	27

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 Q7621211

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 1662061. 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.