BlockBefore

Dorrington, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Arnold-West Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95223. It lies near French Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Dorrington quadrangle. 519 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,767 feet above sea level.

Dorrington within Calaveras County

Then and now

1891 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dorrington, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Dorrington, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Dorrington fell from 609 to 519 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
2010609
2020519-90 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Dorrington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 23 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
Debris and open burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 1999Naturalunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLIGHTNING #38
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitBOARDS
8 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitSPRINGS
5 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreStanislaus National ForestWHITE PINES #3
4 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreStanislaus National ForestWA KA LUU
4 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPG&E #27
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBLAGEN
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitSEGALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calaveras County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dorrington: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Camp Connell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cuds Chrome ClaimChromiumOccurrence
B. J. Placer MineGoldPast Producer
Fallen PineGoldOccurrence
Prussian HillGoldPast ProducerGold
Prussian HillGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calaveras 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
Camp Connell0.6 miles29
Snowshoe Springs0.7 miles29
Big Trees Village1.0 miles29
Big Trees2.4 miles29
Mumbert Acres3.2 miles29
Blue Lake Springs3.8 miles29
McKay4.1 miles35
Blue Lake Junction4.1 miles29

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 DorringtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2108178The 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 1656306. 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.