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Burson, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the San Andreas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95225. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. It stands 252 feet above sea level.

Burson within Calaveras 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 Burson, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Burson, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

696 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 696 fires within 5 miles of Burson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,728 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 43 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/undetermined244
Equipment and vehicle use227
Debris and open burning108
Arson/incendiarism43
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5
Firearms and explosives use2

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitGRISSOM
9 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitKAISER
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPETERSBERG
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPINE ST VALLEY_SPRINGS
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use80 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCARDIN
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCAMANCHE PKWY S/ CHILE CA
7 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use400 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitHIBACH
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitG2C

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calaveras County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 188 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 188 workings within 5 miles of Burson: 79 occurrences, 40 past producers, 37 unknowns, 27 producers. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Clay, 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
Arata PropertyGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
CaldwellGold, Silver, CopperProducerVein
CaldwellGold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Camanche DistrictGold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer1849
Campo SecoCopper, Gold, Silver, ZincProducer
EdnaGold, Copper, SilverPast ProducerGold
Grayhouse MineCopper, ZincProspect
HolmesCopper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Holmes RanchIron, Mineral PigmentsOccurrence
LateFlagstoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Calaveras County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burson in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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
January 2023FloodBurson-There was 1 foot of water in the westbound lane between State Route 12 and Evans Road near Valley Springs. Reported by the California Highway Patrol.

Every storm 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
South Camanche Shore1.7 miles30
Lake Camanche Ranches2.5 miles30
Norval (historical)2.6 miles30
Quail Oaks2.7 miles30
Camanche (historical)3.1 miles30
Valley Springs3.3 miles30
Campo Seco3.6 miles30
Rancho Calaveras4.2 miles30

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 BursonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5000627The 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 1658180. 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.