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Dardanelle, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Twain Harte-Tuolumne City census division. It stands on Eagle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dardanelle quadrangle. It stands 5,774 feet above sea level.

Dardanelle within Tuolumne County

Then and now

1896 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dardanelle, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Dardanelle, surveyed 1896

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Dardanelle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,014 acres in total. 129 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
Natural129
Recreation and ceremony22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestHAMMIL 2
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestBALD
5 September 1998Natural2.0 acresStanislaus National ForestPINES
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestNIAGRA 1
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestVISTA
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestDOUBLE
4 September 1994Smokingunder an acreStanislaus National ForestEUREKA
30 September 2004Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestBARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Dardanelle: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
Peugh PlacerGoldUnknown
AntvniteUraniumProspect
Autunite-Carnotite GroupUraniumPast Producer
Carrigan Mines IncUraniumPast Producer
Juniper ClaimUraniumProducer
Juniper MineUraniumPast ProducerSedimentary
Juniper MineUraniumProspect1955, 1963
UnidentifiedUraniumProducer
Unnamed U ProspectUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tuolumne County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dardanelle in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2013LightningDardanelle1 killedThunderstorms developed in the afternoon along the Sierra Nevada crest and spread eastward. Witnesses reported a 66-year old female died in a campground after a lightning strike hit the area. No enter/exit woulds reported to confirm a direct hit. However, evidence would suggest cardiac arrest due to a lightning strike was likely the cause of death.
August 1998Flash FloodDardanelle$20,000no account filed
August 2015HailDardanelle-Hail to the size of nickels was reported.
August 2015HailDardanelle-Hail to 1 inch in diameter reported in Dardanelle.

Every storm 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
Wagner2.6 miles27
Kennedy Meadow5.1 miles28
Cow Creek10.9 miles28
Bumblebee11.7 miles28
Pinecrest13.4 miles28
Strawberry13.6 miles28
Cold Springs16.9 miles28
Spring Gap18.5 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.

Wikipedia article on DardanelleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5222415The 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 1655949. 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.