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Manor, California

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Ross Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94930. It stands on Bothin Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Rafael quadrangle. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Manor within Marin County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manor, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Manor, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 41 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

100 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Manor between 2005 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined64
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
26 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
21 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Manor: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Copperopolis MineAsbestosProducerChrysotile
Highway 20 SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maillard RanchChromiumOccurrence
Forbes QuarryStoneUnknown
HotalingStoneOccurrence
HotalingStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknown
Maillard RanchManganeseOccurrence
Maillard RanchManganeseOccurrence
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery QuarryStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
San GeronimoGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manor in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 flood. 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
December 2012FloodManor$50,000Flooding damaged White Hill Middle School and classes were cancelled on Monday December 3rd due to classrooms being flooded. Significant flooding occurred with the library and several other classrooms covered in mud. Two art classrooms and two seventh grade classrooms, as well as an administrative office and a staff room suffered water damage.

Every storm recorded in Marin 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
Fairfax0.3 miles41
Sleepy Hollow1.4 miles24
Bothin (historical)1.8 miles24
San Anselmo1.9 miles41
Terra Linda2.4 miles24
Mailliard (historical)2.5 miles23
Los Ranchitos2.6 miles41
Ross2.7 miles41

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 ManorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6751298The 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 1659045. 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.