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Castle Rock Springs, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Middletown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95461. It stands on Gunning Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whispering Pines quadrangle. It stands 2,349 feet above sea level.

Castle Rock Springs within Lake County

Then and now

1945 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Castle Rock Springs, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Castle Rock Springs, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Castle Rock Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 90,662 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning23
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12,525 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGEYSERS
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGEYSER
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRATTLESNAKE
26 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDURHAM
26 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGASS
26 September 1992Smoking1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBELCHER
22 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBEAVER
21 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor500 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 124 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 124 workings within 5 miles of Castle Rock Springs: 42 occurrences, 34 unknowns, 30 past producers, 9 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Manganese, Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Copper PrinceCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Kims Yard IiClayProducer
Black RanchLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Copper Prince MineCopperUnknown
ReynoldsCopperOccurrence
Unnamed LocationCopperUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Henrys Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Middletown Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Whispering Pines3.0 miles20
Forest Lake3.3 miles20
Harbin Springs Annex3.3 miles20
Harbin Springs3.5 miles20
Cobb3.6 miles20
Pine Grove4.1 miles20
Hobergs5.1 miles20
Middletown5.5 miles19

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 Castle Rock SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5050278The 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 1658235. 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.