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Dollar Point, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake Tahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96145. It stands on Dollar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kings Beach quadrangle. 1,261 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,483 feet above sea level.

Dollar Point within Placer County

Then and now

1891 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dollar Point, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Dollar Point, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Dollar Point grew from 1,215 to 1,261 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,215
20201,261+46 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Dollar Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 4 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 ceremony62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Smoking27
Natural21
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes3

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
9 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unit64 ACRES
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitWATSON
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitRESORT
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitOLD
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitTHUNDER
5 September 1996Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitPOLARIS
5 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitNATIONAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer 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
Lake Forest0.8 miles32
Carnelian Heights1.5 miles32
Cedar Flat1.5 miles32
Ridgewood2.0 miles32
Tahoe City2.3 miles32
Carnelian Bay2.8 miles32
Comstock Acres3.3 miles32
Tahoe Woods3.8 miles32

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 Dollar PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301222The 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 1723422. 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.