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Camp Richardson, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Lake Tahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96150. It sits by Tallac Point. The Survey maps it on the Emerald Bay quadrangle. It stands 6,250 feet above sea level.

Camp Richardson within El Dorado County

Then and now

1889 to 1992

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 Camp Richardson, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Camp Richardson, surveyed 1889

Compare 1889 against another survey:

On record in Camp Richardson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 35 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

405 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 405 fires within 5 miles of Camp Richardson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 352 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined112
Recreation and ceremony97
Smoking56
Arson/incendiarism34
Natural31
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Fireworks3

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKEYS
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitEDNA 1
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitVALHALLA
7 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitEIGHT
7 September 1994Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitGRANITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Camp Richardson: 4 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Gold, Scandium. 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
Gravel PitScandiumUnknown
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Anderson PitStoneOccurrence
Butler PitStoneOccurrence
Gilmore Lake ProspectGoldOccurrence
Golden RuleGoldOccurrence
Anderson PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Butler PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Quarry 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Richardson in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
December 2019Heavy RainCamp Richardson-SNOTEL FLFC1 at Fallen Leaf Lake reported 3.30 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 1 December 0000PST to 2 December 2359PST. Station elevation of 6241 ft MSL.

Every storm 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
Kiva Beach0.7 miles35
Tallac Village1.3 miles35
Spring Creek1.4 miles35
Tahoe Keys1.4 miles35
Lake Valley1.9 miles35
Tahoe Valley2.4 miles35
South Lake Tahoe3.0 miles34
Al Tahoe3.0 miles34

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 Camp RichardsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5027537The 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 1655864. 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.