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Cottage Springs, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Arnold-West Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95223. It lies near Summit Level Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Boards Crossing quadrangle. It stands 5,827 feet above sea level.

Cottage Springs within Calaveras 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 Cottage Springs, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Cottage Springs, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Cottage Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,115 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 1 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
Natural31
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitBOARDS
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresStanislaus National ForestMIDDLE FORK
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestBURNT CORRAL
4 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreStanislaus National ForestWA KA LUU
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestWHITTLES
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestRAMSEY
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestRATTLE
30 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreStanislaus National ForestMUD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calaveras 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 Cottage Springs: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
B. J. Placer MineGoldPast Producer
Camp Connell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Calaveras 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
Big Trees Village4.1 miles29
Ganns4.4 miles29
Camp Connell4.8 miles29
Dorrington5.1 miles29
Snowshoe Springs5.8 miles29
Big Meadow6.5 miles30
Big Trees7.5 miles29
Skyhigh7.7 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 Cottage SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5175531The 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 1658325. 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.