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Femmons, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Twain Harte-Tuolumne City census division. It stands on Femmons Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Duckwall Mountain quadrangle.

Femmons within Tuolumne County

Then and now

1893 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Femmons, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Femmons, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 33 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Femmons between 1992 and 2019, burning about 103 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 5 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
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
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
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestNIAGARA
7 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreStanislaus National ForestPLUM
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreStanislaus National ForestJAWBONE
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestJAWBONE
24 September 2011Natural3.5 acresStanislaus National ForestJAWBONE
8 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanislaus National ForestLONG BARN
7 August 2003Natural1.0 acresStanislaus National ForestLAVA
6 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresStanislaus National ForestWOODS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Femmons: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite. 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
Clavey RiverBarium-BariteOccurrence
T.J. Fromm's PropertiesGold, SilverProspect
Blue EagleGoldOccurrence
KanakaGoldPast ProducerGold
North Fork No. 1GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Tuolumne 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
Deadwood6.4 miles27
Colfax Spring8.1 miles29
Buchanan9.0 miles29
Harden Flat9.6 miles28
Mather9.6 miles27
Sequoia11.3 miles28
Tuolumne11.5 miles29
Arastraville11.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122573484The 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 260076. 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.