Mammoth Lakes, California
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mammoth Lakes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93546. It lies near Mammoth Knolls. The Survey maps it on the Old Mammoth quadrangle. 7,191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,881 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1914 to 1994The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresMammoth Lakes fell from 8,234 to 7,191 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,234 | |
| 2020 | 7,191 | -1,043 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Mt. Morrison quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Mt. Morrison quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Old Mammoth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1988 USGS Benton Range quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Old Mammoth quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
244 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Mammoth Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 364 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 8 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 | 87 |
| Natural | 58 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | SWING |
| 9 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | ARROW |
| 8 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | BONEYARD |
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | CAMPFIRE |
| 7 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | TWIN LAKES |
| 7 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | ANTELOPE |
| 7 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | VAMPARILLA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 34 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Mammoth Lakes: 13 past producers, 8 occurrences, 7 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argosy | Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | Argentite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite | |
| Argosy | Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Mammoth Cons. | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite | |
| Mammoth Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mammoth Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Mammoth Mine Folk, Armstrong, San Francisco, Big Bonanza and Mammoth | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper | Producer | ||
| Section 17 Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Shohawk | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Sierra Group | Barium-Barite, Gold, Arsenic | Past Producer | Barite, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Sierra Group | Barium-Barite, Arsenic, Gold | Prospect |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mammoth Lakes in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 heavy rain, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Lightning | Mammoth Lakes | 1 hurt | A man was struck by lightning while walking on the outskirts of Mammoth Lakes. He was injured with burns to his waist, arm, and leg. He spent the night in the hospital and was released the next day. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Mammoth Lakes | $10,000 | Trained weather spotters and law enforcement officials reported heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the Mammoth Lakes area. A total of 2.52 inches of rain fell in the town of Mammoth Lakes from approximately 2:00 pm PDT to 5:00 pm PDT on July 25th. The City of Mammoth public works director reported serious erosion problems in town with some damage to roadways. In the area of Sierra Valley water flowed over roads, and the first floor of a few houses in the area were flooded. At the Mammoth Mountain Ski Village water was reported in a building, and water and debris were reported over Minaret Road and over Main Street. |
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Mammoth Lakes | - | The public reported a Funnel Cloud 1.0 mile SE of Twins Lakes. |
| August 2022 | Heavy Rain | Mammoth Lakes | - | Mesonet station DW5868 located at Mammoth lakes, CA., reported a rainfall total of 1.01 inches. |
| March 2018 | Heavy Rain | Mammoth Lakes | - | Mesonet station D5868, 1 mile southwest of Mammoth Lakes reported 1.21 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 0646PST to 23 March 0646PST. |
| April 2018 | Heavy Rain | Mammoth Lakes | - | Mesonet station D5868, 1 mile southwest of Mammoth Lakes (elevation 8012 feet) reported 2.04 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 1019PST to 7 April 1019PST. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Mammoth Lakes | - | Spotter report of 3/4 inch hail in Mammoth Lakes, California. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Mammoth Lakes | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Heavy Rain | Mammoth Lakes | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Mammoth | 1.7 miles | 29 | |
| Mill City (historical) | 2.1 miles | 29 | |
| Lake Mary | 3.7 miles | 31 | |
| Crestview | 7.2 miles | 22 | |
| Whitmore Hot Springs | 8.5 miles | 28 | |
| June Lake | 10.6 miles | 31 | |
| Benton Crossing | 11.6 miles | 28 | |
| North Landing | 12.1 miles | 25 |
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 Mammoth Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q983604 | 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 1659042. 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.








