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Fish Camp, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Yosemite Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93623. It lies near Goat Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Fish Camp quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,062 feet above sea level.

Fish Camp within Mariposa County

Then and now

1912 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fish Camp, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Fish Camp, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Fish Camp fell from 59 to 49 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
201059
202049-10 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Fish Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,216 acres in total. 54 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
Natural54
Recreation and ceremony48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking14
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes6
Arson/incendiarism4
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
7 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestBUFFIN
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National ForestCORLIEU
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresSierra National ForestFALLS
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremony3.3 acresSierra National ForestLAUREL
26 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestNELDER
26 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestRAYMOND
25 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestMOTOR
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestBUFFIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Fish Camp: 6 prospects, 6 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium, Gold, Copper. 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
Beechnut ClaimMagnesiteProducer
Beechnut ClaimManganeseProspect
FrancisCopper, ZincUnknown
Stewart & NussIronUnknown
WebberSilver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, GoldProspect
BiladeauCopper, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
CrestlineGold, SilverProspect
ScandiaCopper, Zinc, LeadUnknown
Bass Lake AreaUraniumOccurrence
Elsie MGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Mariposa County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fish Camp in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 5 heavy rain, 3 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
March 2011FloodFish Camp$5,000The CHP reported a mud and rock slide on Highway 41 just north of Broken Bit.
January 2023FloodFish Camp-California Highway Patrol reported debris blocking both lanes on SR 41 at Miami Motorcycle Trail.
December 2022FloodFish Camp-California Highway Patrol reported a large tree stump washed onto SR 41 north of Fish Camp.
March 2018Heavy RainFish Camp-California Highway Patrol reported State Highway 41 was closed due to rocks blocking the road. Fish Camp measured 1.65 inches of rain on March 13.
March 2018Debris FlowFish Camp-California Highway Patrol reported a mud slide along northbound State Route 41 at Jackson Rd. near Fish Camp after brief heavy rain moved over the area.
January 2017Heavy RainFish Camp-Trained spotter report of 24 hour rainfall total over 5 inches in Fish Camp.
March 2010Heavy RainFish Camp-Thirty six hour storm total rainfall was 1.60 inches.
October 2009Heavy RainFish Camp-The RAWS weather station at Mariposa Grove measured 7.54 inches 24 hour rainfall.
March 2003Heavy RainFish Camp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mariposa 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
Wawona4.1 miles28
South Wawona (historical)4.3 miles28
South Wawona4.4 miles28
North Wawona4.8 miles28
North Wawona (historical)4.8 miles28
Ponderosa Basin5.1 miles23
Elliott Corner7.2 miles28
Darrah10.7 miles35

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 Fish CampAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458389The 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 260142. 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.