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Grant Grove Village, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodlake-Three Rivers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93633. It lies near Fox Flat. The Survey maps it on the General Grant Grove quadrangle. It stands 6,601 feet above sea level.

Grant Grove Village within Tulare County

Then and now

1903 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grant Grove Village, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Grant Grove Village, surveyed 1903

On record in Grant Grove Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Grant Grove Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony45
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksSWALE
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestTEN MILE
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestKV
3 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksCONE
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestLOG
28 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksLION
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestTODD
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestASPEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Grant Grove Village: 4 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Tungsten, 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
Gray EagleGold, Copper, SilverProspect
Black PrinceGold, Silver, CopperProspect
DomingoGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Indian Gap No 1TungstenOccurrence
Mill Creek TungstenTungstenProspect
Blue BirdGoldProspect
Way-UpGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare 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
Wilsonia0.5 miles27
Hartland5.9 miles27
Sierra Glen7.2 miles23
Badger8.0 miles23
Stony Creek Village8.3 miles26
Auckland13.0 miles24
Red Fir13.9 miles26
Ellis Place15.4 miles24

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 Q99920244The 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 1667526. 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.