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Chalfant Valley, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mammoth Lakes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93514. The Survey maps it on the Chalfant Valley quadrangle. 660 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,259 feet above sea level.

Chalfant Valley within Mono County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chalfant Valley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chalfant Valley, surveyed 1917

Population over time

2 figures

Chalfant Valley grew from 651 to 660 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010651
2020660+9 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Chalfant Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Natural2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictTRANSFER
12 September 2017Natural2.2 acresCentral California DistrictSNAKE
7 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictCHALFANT
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictDEBRIS
4 July 1994Fireworksunder an acreCentral California DistrictBROWN
27 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitHUNTER AV / VALLEY RD
14 July 1992Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictFISH
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictCHALFANT

Every fire recorded in Mono County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Chalfant Valley: 15 past producers, 15 prospects, 10 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Pumice. 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
Chalfant Valley ClaimGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Gold-Silver-Copper OccurrenceSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
KeystoneGold, Zinc, Copper, SilverProspect
Mohawk ShaftTungsten, GoldOccurrenceGold, Scheelite
Mohawk ShaftGold, TungstenPast Producer
MontecitoGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
MontecitoLead, Gold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Moon Group Area ProspectsGold, Lead, Copper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Packfic MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
SacramentoGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold

Every working recorded in Mono 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
Hammil10.5 miles22
Mesa Camp11.2 miles27
Toms Place17.0 miles25
Aspen Springs18.6 miles25
South Landing20.0 miles25
Benton Hot Springs20.6 miles23
Benton20.9 miles21
Montgomery City21.0 miles21

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 Chalfant ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2411186The 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 1667693. 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.