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Goodyears Bar, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the West Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95944. It stands on Woodruff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodyears Bar quadrangle. 69 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,674 feet above sea level.

Goodyears Bar within Sierra County

Then and now

1891 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Goodyears Bar, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Goodyears Bar, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Goodyears Bar grew from 68 to 69 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201068
202069+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Goodyears Bar between 1992 and 2019, burning about 259 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTahoe National ForestALLEGHANY
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestSLATE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestCHARLES
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestMCGINNIS
19 September 2019Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestMAMMOTH
17 September 1996Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestGRIZZLY
14 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestGALLOWAY
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestCASTLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 270 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 270 workings within 5 miles of Goodyears Bar: 120 past producers, 78 occurrences, 51 producers, 16 unknowns. 51 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Lead. 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
DorrissStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
FinaneGold, ChromiumPast ProducerGold
Reported OccurrenceAntimonyOccurrence
Secret CanyonGold, ManganesePast ProducerGold
W W CasserelyAsbestosProspect
Dorriss MineChromium, IronPast Producer1918
Kate HardyGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerGold, Silver
North Fork MineGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Oxford MineChromium, IronPast Producer1918
CasserlyChromiumProspect

Every working recorded in Sierra 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
Downieville3.3 miles28
Mount Vernon (historical)3.7 miles28
Forest3.7 miles33
Oxford Mill3.8 miles28
Monte Cristo (historical)4.1 miles28
Unionville (historical)4.9 miles33
Eureka (historical)4.9 miles27
Alleghany5.3 miles33

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.

Wikipedia article on Goodyears BarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583766The 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 1658637. 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.