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Knights Ferry, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Oakdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95361. It stands on Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Knights Ferry quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Knights Ferry within Stanislaus County

Then and now

1916 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Knights Ferry, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Knights Ferry, surveyed 1916

On record in Knights Ferry

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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 Knights Ferry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,840 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined94
Equipment and vehicle use85
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined573 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionTULLOCH
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitHWY 108 / KENNEDY RD
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitSCHELL
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitMAXWELL
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitFRYMIRE
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitRODDEN
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionORANGE BLOSSOM RD OAKDAL
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.8 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionTULLOCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Knights Ferry: 13 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mineral Pigments. 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
Hughes MineManganesePast Producer1918
JackassGold, SilverPast Producer
Winkler PropertyClayOccurrence
California Ocher Mining Co.Mineral PigmentsOccurrence
VoyleMineral PigmentsPast Producer
Weidman RanchMineral PigmentsOccurrence
Bartlett RanchStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
California Ochre Mining CoStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
VoyleStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Weidman Ranch DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knights Ferry in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2023Thunderstorm WindKnights Ferry$1,000Tree down across Schell Rd. There was a gust to 42 mph measured at Modesto Airport.
March 2023FloodKnights Ferry-The California Highway Patrol reported flooding across SR 108 where the roadway dips down.
December 2022FloodKnights Ferry-Roadway flooding reported near State Route 120/108 and Kennedy Road.

Every storm recorded in Stanislaus 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
Orange Blossom2.6 miles19
Arnold (historical)5.4 miles19
Paulsell7.1 miles14
Warnerville7.2 miles14
East Oakdale7.3 miles15
Cooperstown8.6 miles14
Oakdale10.0 miles15
Adela10.4 miles15

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 Knights FerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1755284The 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 1658915. 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.