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Arnold, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Arnold-West Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95223. It stands on Big Trees Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dorrington quadrangle. 3,288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,999 feet above sea level.

Arnold within Calaveras County

Then and now

1891 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arnold, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Arnold, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Arnold fell from 3,843 to 3,288 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,843
20203,288-555 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Arnold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,360 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning108
Missing data/not specified/undetermined90
Natural29
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony20
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLIGHTNING #36
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLIGHTNING #43
9 September 1999Natural2.0 acresStanislaus National ForestGRISWOLD
9 September 1999Natural1.0 acresStanislaus National ForestMCKAYS
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLIGHTNING #38
8 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitAVERY
8 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitSPRINGS
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresStanislaus National ForestPINES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calaveras County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Arnold: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Fallen PineGoldOccurrence
Prussian HillGoldPast ProducerGold
Prussian HillGoldPast Producer
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold
VallecitoGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Calaveras 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
Lilac Park0.2 miles29
Grizzly Ridge0.7 miles29
Manuel Mill0.7 miles29
White Pines0.9 miles29
Blue Lake Junction1.1 miles29
Meadowmont1.1 miles35
Mountain Retreat1.3 miles29
Pinebrook1.4 miles35

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 ArnoldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2179690The 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 1656296. 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.