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Cedar Slope, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Springville-Johnsondale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93265. It stands on Boulder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camp Nelson quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,584 feet above sea level.

Cedar Slope within Tulare County

Then and now

1904 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 83 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 Slope, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Cedar Slope, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Slope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,778 acres in total. 42 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
Natural42
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestPEPPERMINT
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestSLATE
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestMOUNTAINEER
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestSLATE
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestFREEMAN
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestWISHON
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestJORDAN
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestSNAG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Slope: 6 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Arsenic and Soda SpringsZinc, Copper, LeadUnknown
Barber-WittCopperProspect
Iron CappingCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Iron Capping GroupZinc, Lead, SilverProspect
Mable H. Quartz ClaimQuartzProspect
Sugar LimeLimestone, GeneralProspect
Three Point Nos. 1 and 2TungstenProspect
Elder BerryLead, ZincOccurrence
Elder BerryLead, ZincUnknown
McgeorgeLead, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tulare 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
Camp Nelson1.6 miles28
Quaker Meadow2.7 miles27
Ponderosa3.8 miles27
Smith Mill5.7 miles26
Mountain Home8.8 miles27
Wheatons10.2 miles26
Johnsondale11.9 miles22
Soda Springs12.0 miles27

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 SlopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056895The 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 1660453. 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.