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Keough Hot Springs, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bishop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93514. It stands on Freeman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bishop quadrangle. It stands 4,209 feet above sea level.

Keough Hot Springs within Inyo County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keough Hot Springs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Keough Hot Springs, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Keough Hot Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitCOLLINS
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHWY 395 / WARM SPRINGS R
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
19 September 1994Naturalunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitROSSI # 2
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitKEOUGH
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitWYE
7 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictCOLLINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Keough Hot Springs: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Copper. 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
Bishop Concentrate and Cleaning Co.Tungsten, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Scheelite
BuckshotTungstenProspect
BuckshotTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Kelso Tungsten MineTungstenProducer
Mac Van ClaimTungstenOccurrence
MacvanTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
MarbleTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
MarbleTungstenPast Producer
RossiTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
RossiTungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Inyo 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
Peterson Mill5.4 miles26
Sunland (historical)5.6 miles26
Bishop Trail Park7.5 miles26
Bishop7.6 miles26
Big Pine7.7 miles27
Poleta7.8 miles26
Zurich7.9 miles27
Oteys Sierra Village8.4 miles26

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 Keough Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6393070The 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 1658893. 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.