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Comstock Acres, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake Tahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96145. It sits by Twin Crags. The Survey maps it on the Tahoe City quadrangle.

Comstock Acres within Placer County

Then and now

1891 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Comstock Acres, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Comstock Acres, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

On record in Comstock Acres

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Comstock Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 27 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony60
Natural27
Smoking21
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism4

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitTIGER TAIL RD SQUAW_VALL
9 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unit64 ACRES
9 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitANN
8 September 2001Other causesunder an acreTahoe National ForestMERTENS
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitWATSON
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitRESORT
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitOLD
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitTHUNDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer 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 Comstock Acres: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Squaw Valley GrayelSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed ProspectsGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Placer 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
Tahoe Woods0.7 miles32
Tahoe City1.1 miles32
Sunnyside1.1 miles32
Tahoe Park1.2 miles32
Talmont1.3 miles32
Rampart1.6 miles32
Pine Land1.6 miles32
Twin Peaks Estates1.7 miles32

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.

Wikidata item Q122541928The 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 1723340. 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.