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Haskell Creek Homesites, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the East Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96124. It stands on Leonard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle. It stands 5,840 feet above sea level.

Haskell Creek Homesites within Sierra 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 Haskell Creek Homesites, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Haskell Creek Homesites, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Haskell Creek Homesites between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,154 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 2 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
Natural55
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestBASSETTS
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestSHAFFER
3 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePlumas National ForestGOLD
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestWILD BILL
29 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestHASKELL
28 September 2004Smokingunder an acreTahoe National ForestSNAG
26 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestWING
25 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestKELLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Haskell Creek Homesites: 25 past producers, 21 prospects, 12 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Chromium, Molybdenum. 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
ChippsGold, MolybdenumProspect
Unidentified ProspectTungstenProspect
Basset PrideChromiumProspect
Copper MineChromiumProspect
Basset PrideCopperOccurrence
Copper MineCopperOccurrenceUnderground
Hapgood & MillerCopperProspect
Hapgood and MillerCopperOccurrence
Sierra HomestakeGold, CopperPast ProducerGold
Sierra HomestakeCopper, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sierra 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
Carvin Creek Homesites1.4 miles28
Clark Station Homesites1.8 miles27
Bassetts2.1 miles27
Calpine6.4 miles24
Sierra City6.4 miles26
Sattley6.8 miles24
Loganville7.6 miles26
Milton (historical)7.8 miles27

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 Haskell Creek HomesitesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14682126The 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 1656062. 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.