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Barton, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Pine Grove-Silver Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95666. It lies near Mount Crossman. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. It stands 3,271 feet above sea level.

Barton within Amador County

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barton, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Barton, surveyed 1889

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

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Barton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 626 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 29 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 burning154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined144
Equipment and vehicle use62
Arson/incendiarism29
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Smoking16
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionLODGE
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitMAIN
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPINEWOOD
8 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMADRONE LN BUCKHORN
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSMITTY
6 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitEZELLA CT PIONEER
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestDEW
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPIONEER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 294 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 294 workings within 5 miles of Barton: 114 past producers, 105 occurrences, 63 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Manganese, Lead, Copper. 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
AjaxSilver, Gold, LeadProducer
AjaxGold, Lead, SilverUnknown
American Cement CoLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
American Cement Co.Limestone, DimensionOccurrence
BeldenGold, Lead, Zinc, IronPast Producer1855
Big PineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerGold
DefenderGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
ElkhornGold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerBornite, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
NottusGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Stirnaman MineManganese, SilicaPast Producer1917

Every working recorded in Amador County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barton in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2021Heavy RainBarton-Heavy rain and flooding was reported in Amador County. A CoCoRaHS near Pioneer, CA reported 10.78 inches of storm total rain and 9.77 inches was also reported north of HWY 88.

Every storm recorded in Amador 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
Buckhorn0.2 miles28
Pioneer2.7 miles28
Dew Drop (historical)4.7 miles30
Volcano5.4 miles28
Pine Acres7.2 miles28
Pine Grove7.4 miles28
Irishtown (historical)8.9 miles28
Clinton9.1 miles28

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 Q4865564The 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 252625. 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.