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Crestview, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mammoth Lakes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93546. It stands on Glass Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crestview quadrangle. It stands 7,520 feet above sea level.

Crestview within Mono County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crestview, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Crestview, surveyed 1914

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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Crestview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,754 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 3 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
Natural82
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning1

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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreInyo National ForestPUMICE
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreInyo National ForestBIG HORN
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
3 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreInyo National ForestOBSIDIAN
27 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreInyo National ForestTREE
24 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresInyo National ForestCLARK
24 September 2000Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestGLASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mono County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Crestview: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, 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
LisbonGoldPast ProducerGold
Crestview PumicePumiceOccurrence
Crestview PumicePumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Mono County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestview in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 7 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011FloodCrestview$500Deadman campground closed due to flooding along Deadman Creek. No damage to campground property noted just the loss of income from the closed campsites.
August 2025Heavy RainCrestview-Rainfall totals at the mesonet station DEXC1 Dexter.
July 2024Debris FlowCrestview-Law enforcement reported a debris flow located 1.0 mi SSE of Crestview, CA, with large boulders in the roadway due to heavy rain in the area.
September 2023Heavy RainCrestview-A mesonet station (DEXC1-Dexter) located 13.0 mi ENE Crestview, CA, reported a storm total rainfall amount of 0.74 inches.
October 2023Heavy RainCrestview-A mesonet station (DEXC1- Dexter) located 13.0 mi ENE of Crestview, CA, reported a total rainfall amount of 1.13 inches.
August 2022Heavy RainCrestview-Mesonet station (CRVC1) located near Crestview, CA., and Mesonet station (DEXC1) located 13 mi ENE of Crestview, CA, (near 2021 Dexter fire scar) reported rainfall totals of 0.92 and 3.33 inches respectively.
December 2019Heavy RainCrestview-RAWS CRVC1 near Crestview reported 1.86 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 6 December 1753PST to 8 December 1753PST at an elevation of 7570 feet MSL.
August 2018Heavy RainCrestview-Mesonet station DEXC1, 13 miles east-northeast of Crestview (elevation 7981 feet) reported 0.59 inches of rainfall within an hour period from 1 August 1353PST to 1453PST.
July 2018Heavy RainCrestview-Mesonet station DEXC1, 13 miles east-northeast of Crestview (elevation 7981 feet) reported 1.00 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 11 July 1653PST to 12 July 1653PST.

Every storm 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
June Lake5.2 miles31
June Lake Junction5.6 miles31
Mammoth Lakes7.2 miles29
Old Mammoth8.7 miles29
Mill City (historical)9.0 miles29
Mono Mills9.4 miles23
Lake Mary10.6 miles31
Benton Crossing12.2 miles28

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 Q1139754The 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 1655939. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.