Deep Springs, California

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1987

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.

• 1908 USGS Lida quadrangle1:250000
• 1913 USGS Lida quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Goldfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Goldfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Goldfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Soldier Pass quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Goldfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Last Chance Range quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Soldier Pass quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Deep Springs in 1992, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Scheelite

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Deep Springs: 18 unknowns, 6 prospects, 5 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Inyo County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658387. 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.