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Hobart Mills, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Donner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96161. The Survey maps it on the Hobart Mills quadrangle.

Hobart Mills within Nevada 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 Hobart Mills, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Hobart Mills, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 31 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Hobart Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 836 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 5 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 ceremony63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Natural47
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning18
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
8 September 1996Smokingunder an acreTahoe National ForestSAGEHEN
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestGREY
30 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTahoe National ForestALDER
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTahoe National ForestSAGEHEN
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTahoe National ForestCREEK
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTahoe National ForestHILL 2
26 September 1992Smokingunder an acreTahoe National ForestWEDDING
24 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTahoe National ForestSAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hobart Mills: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Stone, 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
Sha-Neva-Plant No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hirschdale PitPumiceProducer
Red Rock AggregatesPumiceProducer
Unidentified WorkingStoneOccurrence
Unnamed PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobart Mills in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 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
October 2021Heavy RainHobart Mills-COOP and CoCoRahs observers, trained spotters, and Mesonet/ASOS sites reported rainfall amounts ranging from 1.0-3.0 in the area of Glenshire-Devonshire/Donner Peak, CA, and 4.0-6.0 in and around Truckee, CA.
December 2019Heavy RainHobart Mills-SNOTEL near Independence Lake reported 4.50 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 1 December 0000PST to 2 December 2359PST. Station elevation of 8337 ft MSL.
July 2018Heavy RainHobart Mills-Mesonet station PSRC1, 1 mile east of Prosser Creek Reservoir (elevation 5776 feet) reported 1.02 inches of rainfall from 23 July 1445PST to 1615PST.
November 2002Heavy RainHobart Mills-Spotter report of 24 hour rainfall total of 2.70 inches.
June 2000HailHobart Mills-National Weather Service official observer reported 1/2 to 1 inch hail at Sagehen Creek.
July 2010HailHobart Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Prosser Lakeview Estates2.7 miles36
Prosser Lake Heights3.4 miles36
Prosser (historical)3.7 miles36
Olympic Heights4.7 miles36
Boca4.9 miles35
Polaris4.9 miles36
Truckee5.0 miles36
Ponderosa Fairway Estates5.1 miles36

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 Q122556010The 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 1658762. 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.