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Forest Springs, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the San Lorenzo Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95006. It stands on Bracken Brae Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Basin quadrangle.

Forest Springs within Santa Cruz County

Then and now

1902 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 95 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 Springs, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Forest Springs, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Forest Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,968 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Equipment and vehicle use79
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural5
Other causes1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitEMPIRE GRADE
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBEAR CREEK #3
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBEAR CREEK NUMBER 2
8 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitUPPER
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitJAMISON
7 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitARAKI
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBUS
6 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitHWY 9 / FERN DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Forest Springs: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Bracken Brae0.3 miles33
Forest Park0.6 miles33
Wildwood1.1 miles33
Rices Junction1.2 miles33
Redwood Grove1.5 miles33
Boulder Creek1.7 miles34
Riverside Grove2.4 miles33
Brookdale3.2 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658563. 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.