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.
Then and now
1912 to 2004The 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.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresFish 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 59 | |
| 2020 | 49 | -10 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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.
- 1912 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Bass Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Shaver Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Fish Camp quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS Fish Camp quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
202 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 54 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | BUFFIN |
| 4 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | CORLIEU |
| 4 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.2 acres | Sierra National Forest | FALLS |
| 28 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.3 acres | Sierra National Forest | LAUREL |
| 26 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | NELDER |
| 26 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | RAYMOND |
| 25 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | MOTOR |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | BUFFIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beechnut Claim | Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Beechnut Claim | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Francis | Copper, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Stewart & Nuss | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Webber | Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Biladeau | Copper, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Crestline | Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Scandia | Copper, Zinc, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Bass Lake Area | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Elsie M | Gold | Unknown |
Storms near this place
9 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Flood | Fish Camp | $5,000 | The CHP reported a mud and rock slide on Highway 41 just north of Broken Bit. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Fish Camp | - | California Highway Patrol reported debris blocking both lanes on SR 41 at Miami Motorcycle Trail. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Fish Camp | - | California Highway Patrol reported a large tree stump washed onto SR 41 north of Fish Camp. |
| March 2018 | Heavy Rain | Fish 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 2018 | Debris Flow | Fish 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 2017 | Heavy Rain | Fish Camp | - | Trained spotter report of 24 hour rainfall total over 5 inches in Fish Camp. |
| March 2010 | Heavy Rain | Fish Camp | - | Thirty six hour storm total rainfall was 1.60 inches. |
| October 2009 | Heavy Rain | Fish Camp | - | The RAWS weather station at Mariposa Grove measured 7.54 inches 24 hour rainfall. |
| March 2003 | Heavy Rain | Fish Camp | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wawona | 4.1 miles | 28 | |
| South Wawona (historical) | 4.3 miles | 28 | |
| South Wawona | 4.4 miles | 28 | |
| North Wawona | 4.8 miles | 28 | |
| North Wawona (historical) | 4.8 miles | 28 | |
| Ponderosa Basin | 5.1 miles | 23 | |
| Elliott Corner | 7.2 miles | 28 | |
| Darrah | 10.7 miles | 35 |
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 Camp | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458389 | 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 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.








