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Groveland, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Groveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95321. It lies near Jones Hill. The Survey maps it on the Groveland quadrangle. 540 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,061 feet above sea level.

Groveland within Tuolumne 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 Groveland, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Groveland, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

On record in Groveland

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Groveland fell from 601 to 540 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
2010601
2020540-61 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Groveland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,951 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined110
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning56
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural23
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Firearms and explosives use1
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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPML AIRPORT GROVELAND
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictLIGHTNING 134
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictLIGHTNING 26
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLIGHTNING#26
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPROVOST
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCentral California DistrictMARSHES
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCentral California DistrictRAILROAD
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPRIEST #3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 156 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 156 workings within 5 miles of Groveland: 54 past producers, 50 occurrences, 18 producers, 17 unknowns. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ashley PropertyAsbestosProspect
Big Oak Flat No. 1Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
Duleek MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
La GuriaGold, Lead, Copper, SilverProspect
Mary EllenGold, Antimony, Zinc, Lead, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Pine Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Reported OccuranceGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Reported OccurenceCopperOccurrence
GroupGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Groveland-Moccasin-JacksonvilleGold, SilverProducer

Every working recorded in Tuolumne County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groveland in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 2 heavy rain, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2005HailGroveland$1,000no account filed
March 2017HailGroveland-A photo on Twitter showed large hail in Groveland, estimated to be 1.25 in diameter.
July 2015Heavy RainGroveland-Tuolumne Public Works reported a culvert under Evergreen road at the Peach Growers Campground that got overwhelmed by the intensity of rainfall from a thunderstorm.
January 2000Heavy RainGroveland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuolumne 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
Big Oak Flat1.7 miles28
Second Garrotte2.1 miles30
Priest2.7 miles28
Moccasin4.0 miles28
Buchanan5.8 miles29
Buckhorn Estates8.2 miles27
Tuolumne8.5 miles29
Tuolumne City8.6 miles29

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 GrovelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5611486The 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 260968. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.