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Greeley Hill, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Coulterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95311. It lies near Dudley Hill. The Survey maps it on the Coulterville quadrangle. 927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,153 feet above sea level.

Greeley Hill within Mariposa County

Then and now

1893 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greeley Hill, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Greeley Hill, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Greeley Hill grew from 915 to 927 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
2010915
2020927+12 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Greeley Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,520 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined59
Debris and open burning52
Equipment and vehicle use32
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural17
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDONKEY
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictBONEYARD
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestSAM
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitERNST
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitHILDAGO
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use13 acresCentral California DistrictCONVERSE
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBROADWAY COULTERVILLE
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFISKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Greeley Hill: 35 past producers, 32 occurrences, 15 unknowns, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Talc-Soapstone. 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
BalanceGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena
BondurantGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1856
Champion IGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer1855
CongoGold, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
LouisianaGold, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer1862
Mary Harrison-Malvina GroupGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer1852
Gordan DepositTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
Gordon DepositTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Reed PropertyChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Reed PropertyChromiumProspect

Every working recorded in Mariposa 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
Dogtown2.9 miles34
Coulterville4.3 miles34
Newtown (historical)4.4 miles34
Buck Meadows5.8 miles29
Bagby9.2 miles28
Granite Springs9.3 miles28
Blanchard10.4 miles28
Barrett11.0 miles28

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 Greeley HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5602139The 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 266771. 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.