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Caldor, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. It stands on McKinney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caldor quadrangle. It stands 4,442 feet above sea level.

Caldor within El Dorado County

Then and now

1889 to 1976

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Caldor, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of Caldor, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Caldor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 6 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 ceremony36
Natural31
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresEldorado National ForestSNOW
7 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestMEISS
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresEldorado National ForestCAPPS
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresEldorado National ForestIRON
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestCORNER
30 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.1 acresEldorado National ForestCABIN
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresEldorado National ForestBARNEY
28 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestCAPPS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Caldor: 14 occurrences, 13 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. 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
N.R.AGold, SilverPast Producer
ArborGoldOccurrencePlacer
Grizzly FlatGoldUnknown
Louis JordanGoldOccurrencePlacer
Marshall and EstesGoldOccurrencePlacer
Marshall and EstesGoldUnknown
Mauk and KendallGoldOccurrencePlacer
Mauk and KendallGoldUnknown
PlacerGoldUnknown
Red GoldGoldOccurrence

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
Croft1.7 miles30
Gilberts3.8 miles34
Voss4.3 miles34
Bonetti4.9 miles34
Grizzly Flat5.4 miles31
Meiss5.6 miles28
Grizzly Peak6.2 miles31
Pilliken6.9 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.

Wikipedia article on CaldorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5019116The 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 1658191. 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.