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Wunpost, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the San Ardo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93450. It stands on Sargent Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wunpost quadrangle. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Wunpost within Monterey County

Then and now

1919 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wunpost, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Wunpost, surveyed 1919

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Wunpost between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,017 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use129
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism18
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Debris and open burning6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
9 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMOBIL OIL # 5
5 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitMOBIL OIL #3
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitP G & E #21
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E #22
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use14 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E #23
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E # 38
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003376
25 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitMOBIL OIL #4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey 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 Wunpost: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite. 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
Jens DepositDiatomitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wunpost in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 hail. 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
April 2016HailWunpost$10Began to see reports via social media of localized, low level urban flooding due to heavy rain and hail, so we investigated. To attain some ground truth, WCM called petro facility that the convection crossed. He spoke with the plant supervisor who was from Texas and knows severe weather. The supervisor was able to provide photos and video of the hail falling and accumulating. He said at its peak, the hail had depths of about 3 inches, but just under dime size at most. The hail melted quickly and caused local ponding of water.||No impacts were reported.|See http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/stormSummary/SvrWx4_27_16/svrwx_4_27_16.php for pics and details.

Every storm recorded in Monterey 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
Bradley5.7 miles27
San Ardo6.6 miles25
Pleyto8.5 miles24
Pleyto (historical)8.6 miles24
Valleton8.8 miles21
Nacimiento10.6 miles21
Docas (historical)11.4 miles25
Lockwood11.7 miles25

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 Q8039267The 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 1661712. 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.