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Dinkey Creek, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93664. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dinkey Creek quadrangle. It stands 5,987 feet above sea level.

Dinkey Creek within Fresno County

Then and now

1904 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dinkey Creek, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Dinkey Creek, surveyed 1904

On record in Dinkey Creek

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Dinkey Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony67
Natural52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestFRESNO
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSierra National ForestDINKEY
6 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestBALD
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestROCK
5 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestTRAIL
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSierra National ForestBALD
4 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSierra National ForestCABIN
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestREESE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Dinkey Creek: 9 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Stone, Silver. 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
Forest Service Providence QuarryStoneProducer
RichterGold, SilverPast Producer
Last HopeGoldOccurrence
ProvidenceGoldOccurrence
Dinkey CreekTungstenPast Producer
Dinkey CreekTungstenPast Producer
Dinkey Creek MineTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Homer's Tungsten and Little UncleTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Homers Tungsten Quartz ClaimTungstenOccurrence
Joe SadlerTungstenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno 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
Bretz Mill5.5 miles28
Old Bretz Mill7.5 miles27
Sierra Cedars8.0 miles27
Ockenden8.5 miles27
Shaver Lake8.6 miles27
Shaver Lake Heights8.7 miles27
Dora Belle8.9 miles27
Rock Haven9.0 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 Dinkey CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5278367The 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 1655969. 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.