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Mammoth, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Newell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96134. The Survey maps it on the Perez quadrangle. It stands 4,206 feet above sea level.

Mammoth within Modoc County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mammoth, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Mammoth, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Mammoth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,066 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural34
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestSAND
3 September 1997Natural2.0 acresModoc National ForestDOBIE
24 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreModoc National ForestMDF DH SCORPION
8 August 1993Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestRODNEY
5 August 2015Natural71 acresModoc National ForestTWIN
28 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National ForestTRUCK
26 August 1996Natural393 acresModoc National ForestLAKE
26 August 1996Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestDOBIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

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 Mammoth: 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Pumice. 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
Cinder PitStoneOccurrence
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Great Northern Railroad DepositStoneOccurrenceCinders
Great Northern Railroad DepositPumiceProducer

Every working recorded in Modoc 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
Cornell5.1 miles24
Tionesta6.0 miles26
Perez6.5 miles26
Kandra7.0 miles24
Hannchen8.0 miles24
Liskey8.7 miles24
Copic9.3 miles24
Kephart10.0 miles25

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.

Wikidata item Q6745847The 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 1659041. 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.