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Harbin Springs, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Middletown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95461. It lies near Harbin Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Whispering Pines quadrangle. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Harbin Springs within Lake County

Then and now

1945 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harbin Springs, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Harbin Springs, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

287 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Harbin Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,584 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined118
Equipment and vehicle use100
Debris and open burning24
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHARTMAN
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDOUGLAS
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCENTRAL
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKNOWLES LN MIDDLETOWN
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCANYON
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCANYON
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRUCE
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12,525 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGEYSERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 89 workings within 5 miles of Harbin Springs: 35 occurrences, 23 unknowns, 15 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Manganese, Chromium, 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
Copper PrinceCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Kims Yard IiClayProducer
Placer Realty Corp. PropertyGold, SilverPast Producer
Black RanchLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Copany and Jones ProspectAsbestosUnknown
Copper Prince MineCopperUnknown
Copsey and Jones ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
ReynoldsCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Harbin Springs Annex0.4 miles20
Middletown3.2 miles19
Castle Rock Springs3.5 miles20
Whispering Pines3.5 miles20
Forest Lake3.9 miles20
Cobb4.3 miles20
Guenoc (historical)4.8 miles19
Ettawa Springs4.9 miles20

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 Harbin SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5654446The 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 1658709. 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.