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Four Pines, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1996. The Survey maps it on the Sanhedrin Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,354 feet above sea level.

Four Pines within Lake County

Then and now

1929 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Four Pines, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Four Pines, surveyed 1929

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Four Pines between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,870 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2017Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestBEAN
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestBUCK HORN#1
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestBUCKHORN#2
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestSPRUCE
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestCHERRY
25 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictPASTURE
8 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestEIGHTEEN
7 August 2017Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestSKIDMORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
Crocker Place4.3 miles18
Rice Fork Summer Homes14.9 miles17
Enterprise17.3 miles17
Three Crossing20.8 miles17
Howard Mill (historical)21.4 miles17
Parramore Springs21.6 miles17
Vann24.8 miles17
Cooper26.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q5475436The 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 1658571. 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.