Fountain Place, California

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1992

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.

• 1889 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Freel Peak quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Freel Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Smith Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Freel Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 109 started naturally. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Echo Lake
• Little Norway
• Meyers
• Nebelhorn
• Phillips
• Tahoe Valley

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fountain Place: 4 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656031. 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.