Auburn Lake Trails, California
31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the North El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95614. It lies near Buckeye Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. 3,388 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,916 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1891 to 1976The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresAuburn Lake Trails fell from 3,426 to 3,388 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,426 | |
| 2020 | 3,388 | -38 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 31 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.
- 1891 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
472 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 472 fires within 5 miles of Auburn Lake Trails between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,714 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 39 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 154 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 146 |
| Debris and open burning | 79 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 | Arson/incendiarism | 150 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | FORESTHILL |
| 8 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | LONGVIEW |
| 8 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | WESTVILLE |
| 7 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | AMERICAN CYN |
| 7 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Central California District | AMERICAN |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | FORESTHILL |
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | SCHOOL |
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central California District | TALKING |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 306 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 306 workings within 5 miles of Auburn Lake Trails: 138 occurrences, 84 past producers, 76 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cool-Cave Valley Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Coulton Lime and Stone-Auburn Plant | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Fiddlers Green | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1917 | |
| French Hill | Gold, Asbestos | Past Producer | Gold | |
| French Hill | Gold, Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| French Hill | Gold, Arsenic | Unknown | ||
| Green Point | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Green Point Mercury and Uranium Psp | Mercury, Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Iron Crown | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Mammoth Bar | Gold, Platinum, Rhodium, Palladium, Iridium, Osmium | Producer | Stream Placer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood | 2.4 miles | 31 | |
| Fornis | 5.1 miles | 32 | |
| Buffalo Hill | 5.6 miles | 32 | |
| Georgetown | 6.1 miles | 32 | |
| Pilot Hill | 6.4 miles | 27 | |
| Garden Valley | 6.5 miles | 32 | |
| Meadow Brook | 7.3 miles | 32 | |
| Lotus | 8.1 miles | 34 |
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 Auburn Lake Trails | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4819286 | 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 1733728. 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.










