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Graniteville, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Nevada City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95959. It lies near Rocky Glen. The Survey maps it on the Graniteville quadrangle. 1 person lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,977 feet above sea level.

Graniteville within Nevada 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 Graniteville, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Graniteville, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Graniteville fell from 11 to 1 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
201011
20201-10 (-91%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 31 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Graniteville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 806 acres in total. 40 started naturally. None 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
Natural40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTahoe National ForestLAKE 1
30 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTahoe National ForestGERMAN
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTahoe National ForestSPANISH #2
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestPOOR
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestCHERRY
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestMURPHY
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestCARR
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestPOWERHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 225 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 225 workings within 5 miles of Graniteville: 120 past producers, 64 occurrences, 29 unknowns, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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
Ancho QtzGold, Silver, Lead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Gaston RidgeGold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerGold
German BarGold, PlatinumPast Producer1851
Rocky GlenGold, Lead, SilverPast ProducerGalena, Gold
SpanishGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Spanish MineGold, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1883
Spanish Qtz.Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerGold
Twin SistersGold, ArsenicPast ProducerGold
Arctic GroupGold, Lead, ZincPast ProducerGold
Erie Con LodeGold, Lead, CopperPast ProducerGold, Pyrite

Every working recorded in Nevada 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
Marsh Mill1.9 miles31
Shands (historical)2.4 miles33
Gaston3.2 miles31
Snow Point (historical)4.1 miles33
Dillon (historical)4.5 miles33
Orleans Flat5.1 miles33
Moores Flat6.1 miles33
Maybert (historical)6.4 miles34

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 GranitevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5595958The 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 1658648. 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.