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Golden Gate Heights, California

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Sunset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94122. It lies near Mount Sutro. The Survey maps it on the San Francisco North quadrangle.

Golden Gate Heights within San Francisco County

Then and now

1895 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Golden Gate Heights, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Golden Gate Heights, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 surveys from 39 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

324 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Golden Gate Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 687 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined160
Recreation and ceremony56
Smoking34
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks4
Natural3
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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaDOYLE5
8 September 2009Smoking200 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaHWY 1 VEG
7 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaSUTRO
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Francisco County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Golden Gate Heights: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Mercury. 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
Daly SStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Daly SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mining Claim Loc. Quicksilver Fnd.MercuryProspect
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceMercuryOccurrence1892
Black MountainGoldPast Producer
Black Mtn.GoldPast ProducerGold
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Francisco 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
Forest Knolls0.6 miles39
Forest Hill0.6 miles43
Doelger City1.1 miles39
West Portal1.2 miles43
Park View Commons1.2 miles39
Sunset District1.3 miles39
Sherwood Forest1.4 miles43
Saint Francis Wood1.4 miles43

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 Q122560717The 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 2352774. 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.