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.
Then and now
1891 to 2000The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresGoodyears 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 69 | +1 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1951 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Goodyears Bar quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Portola quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Goodyears Bar quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | ALLEGHANY |
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | SLATE |
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | CHARLES |
| 29 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | MCGINNIS |
| 19 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | MAMMOTH |
| 17 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | GRIZZLY |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | GALLOWAY |
| 12 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | CASTLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 270 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorriss | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Finane | Gold, Chromium | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Reported Occurrence | Antimony | Occurrence | ||
| Secret Canyon | Gold, Manganese | Past Producer | Gold | |
| W W Casserely | Asbestos | Prospect | ||
| Dorriss Mine | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Kate Hardy | Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | Gold, Silver | |
| North Fork Mine | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Oxford Mine | Chromium, Iron | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Casserly | Chromium | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downieville | 3.3 miles | 28 | |
| Mount Vernon (historical) | 3.7 miles | 28 | |
| Forest | 3.7 miles | 33 | |
| Oxford Mill | 3.8 miles | 28 | |
| Monte Cristo (historical) | 4.1 miles | 28 | |
| Unionville (historical) | 4.9 miles | 33 | |
| Eureka (historical) | 4.9 miles | 27 | |
| Alleghany | 5.3 miles | 33 |
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 Bar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5583766 | The 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.










