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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.

Forest Home within Amador County

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The 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 sheet of Forest Home (historical), surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Forest Home (historical), surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

161 since 1992

Regional 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 use67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitIONE
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCARBON
9 September 1999Natural8.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitIONE
7 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitSIXTEEN
5 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitREICH
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitWILLOW
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use27 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitCARBONDALE
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitPONY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 111 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper HillCopper, ZincOccurrence
Copper HillCopper, Silver, Gold, ZincProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite
Forest HomeGold, CorundumOccurrence
Grelich Ranch Grelich RanchLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Lot 232 Lignite PitLignite, Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Michigan Bar DistrictGold, Silver, PGEPast Producer1850
Nother Carbondale MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wait MarbleLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
Wait MarbleMarble, DimensionProspect
Ben Brown PitKaolinPast Producer

Every working recorded in Amador 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
May (historical)3.9 miles25
Carbondale4.5 miles25
Pokerville (historical)5.7 miles30
Drytown6.0 miles30
Edwin6.1 miles28
Clarksona6.4 miles28
Plymouth6.4 miles30
New Chicago7.0 miles30

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 Q5468978The 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.