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Cold Springs, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Twain Harte-Tuolumne City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95335. It lies near Fraser Flat. The Survey maps it on the Strawberry quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,315 feet above sea level.

Cold Springs within Tuolumne County

Then and now

1891 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cold Springs, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Cold Springs, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Cold Springs fell from 181 to 123 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
2010181
2020123-58 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Cold Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,762 acres in total. 59 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
Natural59
Recreation and ceremony48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestTROUT
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestFIR
9 September 1999Natural4.0 acresStanislaus National ForestBROWNS
9 September 1999Natural4.0 acresStanislaus National ForestSTODDARD 2
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestBALD
9 September 1999Natural3.0 acresStanislaus National ForestFRASER
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestPAM
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestTRANSFER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cold Springs: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Aggregate PlacerGoldProspect
RiversideGoldPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Tuolumne 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
Spring Gap2.6 miles28
Strawberry3.4 miles28
Pinecrest3.8 miles28
Bumblebee5.3 miles28
Camp Pendola6.2 miles29
Cow Creek6.3 miles28
Long Barn6.4 miles30
High Sierra Park7.5 miles30

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 Cold SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5142374The 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 1658297. 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.