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Briarwood Canyon, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95762. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Briarwood Canyon within El Dorado County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Briarwood Canyon, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Briarwood Canyon, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

1,239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,239 fires within 5 miles of Briarwood Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,998 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 94 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/undetermined443
Equipment and vehicle use416
Debris and open burning132
Arson/incendiarism94
Misuse of fire by a minor69
Smoking34
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony11
Other causes4
Fireworks2

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 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitWYCLIFFE WY EL_DORADO_HI
9 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionNEUMANN
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unit50
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitGREEN
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitRITE
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCIMMARON
8 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionLASSO
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 102 workings within 5 miles of Briarwood Canyon: 49 occurrences, 29 unknowns, 18 past producers, 3 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, 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
Brandon RichardsonTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceSoapstone
Pilot KnobSilver, GoldOccurrence
Rose KimberlyGold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
El Dorado Limestone CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Joerger MineChromium, IronPast Producer1918
Marble Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Walker MineChromium, IronPast Producer1917
RelianceIronOccurrence
RelianceIronUnknown
Walker MineChromium, IronPast ProducerChromite

Every working recorded in El Dorado 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
Cambridge Oaks0.8 miles29
Bar J Ranch0.9 miles29
Cameron Airpark Estates1.5 miles32
Cameron Park1.5 miles32
Skinners2.0 miles32
Marble Mountain2.0 miles29
Green Springs Ranch2.1 miles29
Clarksville2.4 miles29

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 Q4965814The 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 1733959. 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.