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Hot Springs, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Feather River Canyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95984. It lies in Hot Springs Ravine. The Survey maps it on the Twain quadrangle. It stands 2,815 feet above sea level.

Hot Springs within Plumas County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

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 Hot Springs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hot Springs, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 13 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
Natural82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking5
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestRANGE
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestWAPUNSIE
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestFALLS
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestBUTTERFLY
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestRAVINE
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDAWN
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestROUND
4 September 1992Smokingunder an acrePlumas National ForestROADSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs: 25 past producers, 23 occurrences, 20 unknowns, 8 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jack Forth ClaimsChromiumPast Producer1944
Rock-O MineStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed LocationTitanium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Buckhorn ClaimsManganeseOccurrence
Feather River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
HaunganeseManganeseProspect1960
Pacific Portland Cement CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
ShooflyCopperOccurrenceBornite
ShooflyCopperUnknown
Stokes & StowellUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Grays Flat1.6 miles25
Twain2.0 miles25
Paxton2.4 miles24
Virgilia3.8 miles25
Keddie3.9 miles24
Indian Falls4.5 miles24
Spanish Ranch4.9 miles23
Silver Creek (historical)5.5 miles23

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 Q5910429The 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 1660048. 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.