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Leadfield, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Death Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92328. The Survey maps it on the Thimble Peak quadrangle. It stands 4,058 feet above sea level.

Leadfield within Inyo County

Then and now

1908 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leadfield, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Leadfield, surveyed 1908

On record in Leadfield

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leadfield: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
March StormSilver, LeadProspect
Happy Hooligan MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Happy Hooligan MineGoldPast Producer
March StormLeadOccurrence

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
Chloride City (historical)13.5 miles26
Beatty Junction18.9 miles25
Park Village25.5 miles25
Teakettle Junction26.3 miles25
Furnace Creek28.6 miles26
Skidoo (historical)28.8 miles28
Indian Village29.1 miles26
Schwaub (historical)29.5 miles24

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 LeadfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q643197The 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 1658952. 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.

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.