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Yucca Grove, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Newberry Springs-Baker census division. The Survey maps it on the Solomons Knob quadrangle. It stands 4,131 feet above sea level.

Yucca Grove within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1910 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yucca Grove, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Yucca Grove, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Yucca Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,238 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Natural14
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictPAPER
26 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHALLORAN 5
17 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictPAMONA
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHALLORAN
13 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHALLORAN 7
11 September 2011Natural16 acresMojave National PreserveSPRINGS
10 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSINBAD
9 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMojave National PreservePEANUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Yucca Grove: 30 prospects, 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Chesterfield & Old Gold GroupCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Cion BlockCopper, LeadOccurrence
Magnesium GiantDolomite, MagnesiteOccurrence
Squaw T Placers ClaimsIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectVanadium, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Unnamed ProspectTungstenProspect
Unnamed ProspectZincProspect
Unnamed ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Unnamed Mine ShaftsCopper, Lead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yucca Grove in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash 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
July 2014Flash FloodYucca Grove$10,000Pieces of pavement washed off Interstate 15 at the Halloran Summit Road exit.

Every storm 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
Valley Wells Station5.3 miles27
Halloran Springs5.6 miles28
Mountain Pass13.9 miles26
Rainbow Wells15.5 miles26
Wheaton Springs17.3 miles26
Baker17.7 miles21
Talc (historical)18.4 miles21
Cima19.2 miles27

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 Yucca GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29043774The 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 1661717. 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.