Markleeville, California

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• Alpine County

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1985

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 2 records

• Alpine County Courthouselisted 2004
• Webster Schoolhouse, Oldlisted 2005

Markleeville fell from 210 to 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.

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.

• 1889 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Markleeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Smith Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Markleeville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 383 acres in total. 150 started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Marklee Village
• Shay Creek Summer Home Area
• Mount Bullion (historical)
• Silver Mountain (historical)
• Alpine Village
• Centerville (historical)

Every fire recorded in Alpine County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,213 specimens collected within 10 miles of Markleeville between 1863 and 1975: 1,994 Animalia, 120 Plantae, 92 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Bartel, A. C. Browne, A. Eastwood and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Eriogonum lobbii var. minus Torr. & A.Gray	1863	William H. Brewer	Near summit of Silver Mountain
	Hieracium breweri A.Gray	1863	William H. Brewer	Summit of Silver Mountain
	Pedicularis attollens A.Gray	1863	William H. Brewer	Camp 129, Silver Creek Valley
	Primula suffrutescens A.Gray	1863	William H. Brewer	Silver Mountain
	Rosa gymnocarpa var. pubescens S.Watson	1863	William H. Brewer	Silver Mountain Pass
	Homalothecium aureum (Spruce) H.Rob.	1870	T. P. James	Monitor.
	Rhizocarpon riparium Räsänen	1870	I. A. Lapham
	Tsuga mertensiana subsp. grandicona Farjon	1876	Hooker, J.D.; Gray, A.
	Pinus L.	1877	Hooker, J.D.; Gray, A.	['Gorge Barey Silver Mtn.']
	Pinus monticola Douglas ex D.Don	1877	Hooker, J.D.; Gray, A.
	Geococcyx californianus (Lesson, 1829)	1888	Ingersoll, A.M.
	Agrostis scabra Willd.	1893	Hansen,G. Flora of the Sequoia Gigantea Region 817	Alpine County; Silver Lake

All 2,213 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Markleeville: 38 past producers, 22 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 2 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, 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.

Every working recorded in Alpine County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Markleeville in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 12 heavy rain, 5 debris flow, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Alpine County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659065. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.