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.
Then and now
1919 to 1989The 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 sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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.
- 1919 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1941 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Wunpost quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:50000
- 1989 USGS Paso Robles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
221 since 1992Regional 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 use | 129 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 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 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | MOBIL OIL # 5 |
| 5 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | MOBIL OIL #3 |
| 4 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | P G & E #21 |
| 4 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PG&E #22 |
| 4 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PG&E #23 |
| 4 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PG&E # 38 |
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU003376 |
| 25 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | MOBIL OIL #4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jens Deposit | Diatomite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Hail | Wunpost | $10 | Began 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley | 5.7 miles | 27 | |
| San Ardo | 6.6 miles | 25 | |
| Pleyto | 8.5 miles | 24 | |
| Pleyto (historical) | 8.6 miles | 24 | |
| Valleton | 8.8 miles | 21 | |
| Nacimiento | 10.6 miles | 21 | |
| Docas (historical) | 11.4 miles | 25 | |
| Lockwood | 11.7 miles | 25 |
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 Q8039267 | 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 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.











