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Brockway Vista, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake Tahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96143. It stands on Griff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kings Beach quadrangle.

Brockway Vista within Placer County

Then and now

1891 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brockway Vista, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Brockway Vista, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Brockway Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,231 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Smoking32
Natural25
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitCUTTHROAT
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBEAVER 3
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBEAVER
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitCANTERBURY
5 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitPATH
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitNATIONAL
3 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitGRIFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brockway Vista: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 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
Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed MineGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Placer 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
Kings Beach0.6 miles32
Brockway0.8 miles32
Wood Vista1.0 miles32
Tahoe Vista1.9 miles32
Tahoe Estates2.2 miles32
Tahoe Marina Estates2.5 miles32
Kingswood Estates2.8 miles34
Carnelian Bay3.6 miles32

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 Q122553897The 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 1723413. 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.