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Sunfair, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Twentynine Palms-Yucca Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92252. The Survey maps it on the Sunfair quadrangle. It stands 2,412 feet above sea level.

Sunfair within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1953 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunfair, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Sunfair, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Sunfair between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1

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 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictENCHANTED
29 September 1992Other causesunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBORDER
19 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitRORRER
26 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentBDCASST#4
26 August 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitCHIEF
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2069
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictJUNIPERO
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictONAGA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sunfair: 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Thorium. 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
Copper Mt UraniumThorium, UraniumUnknown
Homestretch MinesThorium, UraniumProspect
Steiner ClaimsUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Bernardino 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
Panorama Heights3.1 miles17
Hidden River3.4 miles14
Joshua Tree4.0 miles14
Sunfair Heights5.5 miles15
Desert Heights6.2 miles15
Harmony Acres7.4 miles17
Smoke Tree8.5 miles17
The Plaza10.3 miles17

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 SunfairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7639963The 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 250092. 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.