Forest Home, California
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sutter Creek-Plymouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95669. The Survey maps it on the Irish Hill quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1889 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 28 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.
- 1889 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1941 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Irish Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
161 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Forest Home (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,534 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | IONE |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | CARBON |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | IONE |
| 7 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | SIXTEEN |
| 5 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | REICH |
| 29 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | WILLOW |
| 27 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 27 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | CARBONDALE |
| 24 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.2 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | PONY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 111 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 111 workings within 5 miles of Forest Home (historical): 46 occurrences, 26 past producers, 20 producers, 14 unknowns. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Clay, Chromium, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Hill | Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Copper Hill | Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc | Producer | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite | |
| Forest Home | Gold, Corundum | Occurrence | ||
| Grelich Ranch Grelich Ranch | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Lot 232 Lignite Pit | Lignite, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Michigan Bar District | Gold, Silver, PGE | Past Producer | 1850 | |
| Nother Carbondale Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wait Marble | Limestone, General, Marble, Dimension | Occurrence | Metamorphic | |
| Wait Marble | Marble, Dimension | Prospect | ||
| Ben Brown Pit | Kaolin | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May (historical) | 3.9 miles | 25 | |
| Carbondale | 4.5 miles | 25 | |
| Pokerville (historical) | 5.7 miles | 30 | |
| Drytown | 6.0 miles | 30 | |
| Edwin | 6.1 miles | 28 | |
| Clarksona | 6.4 miles | 28 | |
| Plymouth | 6.4 miles | 30 | |
| New Chicago | 7.0 miles | 30 |
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 Forest Home (historical) | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5468978 | 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 1670505. 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.













