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.
Then and now
1891 to 2001The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresCold 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 181 | |
| 2020 | 123 | -58 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Long Barn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Strawberry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000
- 2001 USGS Strawberry quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
209 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 59 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | TROUT |
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | FIR |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Stanislaus National Forest | BROWNS |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Stanislaus National Forest | STODDARD 2 |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | BALD |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Stanislaus National Forest | FRASER |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | PAM |
| 8 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | TRANSFER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggregate Placer | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Riverside | Gold | Past Producer | Gold |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Gap | 2.6 miles | 28 | |
| Strawberry | 3.4 miles | 28 | |
| Pinecrest | 3.8 miles | 28 | |
| Bumblebee | 5.3 miles | 28 | |
| Camp Pendola | 6.2 miles | 29 | |
| Cow Creek | 6.3 miles | 28 | |
| Long Barn | 6.4 miles | 30 | |
| High Sierra Park | 7.5 miles | 30 |
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5142374 | The 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.











