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Dos Cabezas, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Borrego Springs census division. It lies near Piedras Grandes. The Survey maps it on the Jacumba quadrangle.

Dos Cabezas within San Diego County

Then and now

1931 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dos Cabezas, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Dos Cabezas, surveyed 1931

Compare 1931 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Dos Cabezas between 1993 and 2012, burning about 298 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSan Diego UnitRAILROAD
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBORDER 8
2 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Diego UnitEL CENTRO
2 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBORDER 92
12 September 2004Natural5.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictMANZANITA
12 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSan Diego UnitJACUMBA
16 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLIGHTNING
11 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBORDER 86

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Dos Cabezas: 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gemstone, Feldspar, Tungsten, Nickel. 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
Circle Group DepositVermiculitePast Producer
Overlook ProspectGold, FeldsparProspect
UnnamedNickel, CopperProspect
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectSemiprecious GemstoneOccurrence
White Cloud DepositTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Dos Cabezas ProspectsFeldsparProspect
Dos Cabezas MineGemstoneProspect
Unnamed ProspectGemstoneOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectGemstoneProspect

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dos Cabezas in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Flash FloodDos Cabezas-CHP Incident report of a large rock slide and portions of S2 extending into San Diego County washed out.

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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
Mortero Palms1.9 miles20
Titus8.1 miles20
Bankhead Springs8.6 miles20
Boulevard9.1 miles19
Jacumba Hot Springs9.2 miles15
Calexico Lodge9.3 miles19
Manzanita9.5 miles19
Live Oak Springs11.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660564. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.