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Gate Place, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Portola census division. It stands on Oldhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grizzly Valley quadrangle.

Gate Place within Plumas County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Gate Place, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Gate Place, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Gate Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 2 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
Natural69
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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 2020Arson/incendiarism11 acresPlumas National ForestDAVIS 3
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestBLAKELESS
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forest25
27 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
27 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestEMIGRANT
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gate Place: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Gold, Copper, 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
Edman Tin ClaimsTinOccurrence
Orange and PoppyGoldPast Producer
Unnamed LocationCopper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Chases (historical)4.0 miles29
Five Points4.0 miles29
Lovejoy (historical)4.4 miles29
Walkermine (historical)5.3 miles29
Lake Davis6.5 miles24
Crow (historical)6.7 miles25
Cromberg7.7 miles28
Two Rivers8.8 miles28

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 Q122545967The 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 1658600. 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.