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Cedar Crest, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93634. It stands on Huckleberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington Lake quadrangle. It stands 7,077 feet above sea level.

Cedar Crest within Fresno County

Then and now

1904 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedar Crest, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Cedar Crest, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 27 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Crest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 379,925 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 5 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
Natural68
Recreation and ceremony31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Other causes3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1

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 2015Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestHUCKLEBERRY
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National ForestHUNTINGTON
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined379,895 acresSierra National ForestCREEK
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSierra National ForestSHADY
30 September 2008Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestBUTTE
3 September 2003Natural2.5 acresSierra National ForestCOARSEGRASS
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestPOTTER
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestTAMARACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Crest: 7 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Unnamed LocationAluminumOccurrence
White LodesLimestone, DimensionProspect
Twin LakesStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Prior Lake ClaimTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Prior Lake ClaimTungstenOccurrence
Question and Twin Lakes ClaimTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Twin Lake OccurencesTungstenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Crest in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 tornado. 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
September 2020Tornado (EF1)Cedar Crest-Storm survey conducted by on site NWS IMET near Huntington Lake indicating winds of 90-107 mph consistent with an EF1 tornado. The firewhirl was a result of unprecedented fire behavior. Video and pictures show large live 15 inch diameter trees snapped. Several large root balls from the trees were completely pulled out of the ground.

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Lakeshore1.5 miles29
Huntington Lake2.1 miles27
Big Creek3.6 miles27
Snow Bend4.3 miles29
Camp Sierra4.9 miles28
Rock Haven10.3 miles28
Dora Belle11.1 miles27
Dinkey Creek11.2 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 Cedar CrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056655The 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 276229. 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.