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Cedar Grove, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sierra census division. It stands on Hotel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Grove quadrangle. It stands 4,610 feet above sea level.

Cedar Grove within Fresno County

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 89 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 Grove, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Cedar Grove, surveyed 1903

On record in Cedar Grove

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,575 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 4 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
Natural74
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
5 September 2000Natural1.5 acresSequoia National ForestWILDMAN
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestWILDERNESS
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSENTINEL
3 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.3 acresSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSHEEP CREEK
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestMITCHELL
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksWILLIAMS
26 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksCANYONVIEW
25 September 1994Natural1.5 acresSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksGRANITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Grove: 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Molybdenum, Copper, Gold. 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
KenawyerCopper, GoldOccurrenceVein
Buchanan ProspectMolybdenumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Buchanan ProspectMolybdenumOccurrenceVein
BaddersCopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Grove in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 3 wildfire, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 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
June 2011FloodCedar Grove$2,000Park Service officials reported Lewis Creek near Cedar Grove had flooded and overflowed its banks. This flooding was in response to rapid snowmelt in the Southern Sierra Nevada.
July 2018Flash FloodCedar Grove-California Highway Patrol reported water and debris across Kings Canyon Road in several places between Lewis and Hotel Creeks in Cedar Grove.
September 2018Heavy RainCedar Grove-Sugarloaf RAWS measured 1.10 inches of rainfall between 111 pm PDT and 511 pm PDT. More than half of the rain fell between 211 pm PDT and 311 pm PDT while a slow moving thunderstorm impacted the area.
October 2018Debris FlowCedar Grove-Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park rangers reported large boulders on State Route 180 in Kings Canyon.
July 2011Heavy RainCedar Grove-One hour rainfall amount, from a heavy thunderstorm, was 1.06 inches.
September 2001WildfireCedar Grove-The Burnt Fire details are available in the August 2001 Stormdata.
July 2001WildfireCedar Grove-Details on the Burnt Fire can be found in the August 2001 Stormdata.
August 2001WildfireCedar Grove-The cost to contain the Burnt Fire is unknown. This lightning caused fire started on July 30th but no spot forecasts were requested to fight the fire until August 11th. The fire burned 1879 acres from July 30th through September 28th. The fire was managed for resource benefit. No fatalities, injuries, or structures were lost.
August 2000LightningCedar Grove-Lightning activity in the Kings Canyon National Park led to a power outage in the park.

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
Kanawyers4.5 miles29
Hume Station12.4 miles27
Hume12.9 miles27
Millwood (historical)18.0 miles23
Neffs Camp18.7 miles23
Goodmill18.7 miles25
Cedarbrook18.8 miles23
Etheda Springs19.1 miles23

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056694The 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 1655878. 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.