Kiva Beach, California

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1992

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Pope Estatelisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
• Baldwin Estatelisted 1987 · 0.3 miles away
• Heller Estatelisted 1987 · 0.7 miles away

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
• 1955 USGS Emerald Bay quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Fallen Leaf Lake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Emerald Bay quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 348 fires within 5 miles of Kiva Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 343 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 24 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Camp Richardson
• Emerald Bay
• Lake Valley
• Tahoe Keys
• South Lake Tahoe
• Spring Creek

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kiva Beach: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Scandium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656114. 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.