Woody, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lake Isabella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93287. It lies near Spring Mountain Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Woody quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,654 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1932 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 46 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 23 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.
- 1932 USGS Woody quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Woody quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Tobias Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Woody quadrangle1:62500, 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
- 1965 USGS Woody quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Isabella Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Woody between 2003 and 2016, burning about 1,405 acres in total. 2 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 acres | Central California District | CHOCTAW |
| 28 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 22 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 21 August 2013 | Natural | 21 acres | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
| 26 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 900 acres | Central California District | BLUE |
| 21 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Sequoia National Forest | K |
| 11 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 457 acres | Kern County Fire Department | 155 |
| 5 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kern County Fire Department | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Woody: 11 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountain Mine | Gold, Silver | Producer | ||
| Greenback Copper | Tin | Occurrence | ||
| Iron Mountain Deposit | Gold, Copper, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Iron Mountain Wonder | Copper, Iron | Occurrence | Magnetite, Scheelite | |
| Sunrise Prospect | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Garces Highway Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hunsaker Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Woody Mine | Tungsten | Producer | Scheelite | |
| Woody Mine | Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Mountain Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woody in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Flood | Woody | - | Public report of a boulder in the roadway on Poso Flat Rd. east of the exchange with Granite Rd. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glennville | 7.1 miles | 23 | |
| Halfway House | 10.3 miles | 30 | |
| Lackey Place | 11.1 miles | 23 | |
| Pettit Place | 12.3 miles | 25 | |
| Petersburg (historical) | 14.1 miles | 24 | |
| Shirley Meadows | 14.7 miles | 25 | |
| Alta Sierra | 15.2 miles | 25 | |
| Quality | 16.1 miles | 20 |
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 Woody | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8033624 | 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 253006. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.












