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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.

Woody within Kern County

Then and now

1932 to 1978

The 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 sheet of Woody, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Woody, surveyed 1932

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

9 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresCentral California DistrictCHOCTAW
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKern County Fire Departmentnot named
22 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 August 2013Natural21 acresKern County Fire Departmentnot named
26 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined900 acresCentral California DistrictBLUE
21 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestK
11 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined457 acresKern County Fire Department155
5 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKern County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blue Mountain MineGold, SilverProducer
Greenback CopperTinOccurrence
Iron Mountain DepositGold, Copper, IronProspect
Iron Mountain WonderCopper, IronOccurrenceMagnetite, Scheelite
Sunrise ProspectGold, CopperPast Producer
Garces Highway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hunsaker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Woody MineTungstenProducerScheelite
Woody MineTungstenPast Producer
Blue Mountain MineGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kern County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023FloodWoody-Public report of a boulder in the roadway on Poso Flat Rd. east of the exchange with Granite Rd.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glennville7.1 miles23
Halfway House10.3 miles30
Lackey Place11.1 miles23
Pettit Place12.3 miles25
Petersburg (historical)14.1 miles24
Shirley Meadows14.7 miles25
Alta Sierra15.2 miles25
Quality16.1 miles20

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 WoodyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8033624The 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.