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.
Then and now
1891 to 2001The 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.


Compare 1891 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresDorrington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 609 | |
| 2020 | 519 | -90 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Big Trees quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Blue Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Dorrington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000
- 2001 USGS Dorrington quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
178 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 61 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 52 |
| Natural | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | LIGHTNING #38 |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | BOARDS |
| 8 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | SPRINGS |
| 5 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | WHITE PINES #3 |
| 4 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | WA KA LUU |
| 4 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | PG&E #27 |
| 30 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BLAGEN |
| 29 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | SEGALE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Connell Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cuds Chrome Claim | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| B. J. Placer Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Fallen Pine | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Prussian Hill | Gold | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Prussian Hill | Gold | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Connell | 0.6 miles | 29 | |
| Snowshoe Springs | 0.7 miles | 29 | |
| Big Trees Village | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Big Trees | 2.4 miles | 29 | |
| Mumbert Acres | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Blue Lake Springs | 3.8 miles | 29 | |
| McKay | 4.1 miles | 35 | |
| Blue Lake Junction | 4.1 miles | 29 |
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 Dorrington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2108178 | The 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.











