Jones Place, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the North El Dorado census division. It lies near Bosworth Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Kyburz quadrangle. It stands 4,921 feet above sea level.

Jones Place within El Dorado County

Then and now

1889 to 1976

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jones Place, surveyed 1976

Topographic sheet of Jones Place, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1889 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1896 USGS Pyramid Peak quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Kyburz quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1952 USGS Robbs Peak quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Jones Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 544 acres in total. 32 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 ceremony	129
Natural	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Smoking	15
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2017	Natural	500 acres	Eldorado National Forest	TABLE
8 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	PAPA
6 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	BALL
6 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	not named
5 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	YELLOW
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	BASSI #3
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	TIE
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eldorado National Forest	JONES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Raffetto	3.9 miles	32
White Hall	5.5 miles	32
McConnel Place	5.5 miles	32
Kyburz	6.5 miles	30
Riverton	6.8 miles	32
Short Place	7.3 miles	32
Lower Forni	8.2 miles	35
Campana	8.3 miles	34

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 Q6275274

The 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 1658871. 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.