Marks Place, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Covelo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95428. It stands on Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamison Ridge quadrangle. It stands 1,732 feet above sea level.

Marks Place within Mendocino County

Then and now

1929 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marks Place, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Marks Place, surveyed 1929

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1929 USGS Eden Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Eden Valley quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Jamison Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Covelo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Marks Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,939 acres in total. 10 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
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	4

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
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 83
3 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 82
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 84
25 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	HILL
21 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	VEHICLE
12 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	1-1
23 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	PIGEON
2 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	JARBO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marks Place: 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Diamond H, Ranch Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Unnamed Location	Clay	Occurrence
Lone Fir	Manganese	Occurrence
Lone Fir	Manganese	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Mendocino 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cubbler Place	3.4 miles	16
Covelo	7.8 miles	16
McClure Place	9.0 miles	16
Sherburns (historical)	9.3 miles	16
Tatu	10.4 miles	16
Dos Rios	10.4 miles	16
O'Neil Place	10.5 miles	12
Indian Springs	11.6 miles	16

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 Q662428

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 1659066. 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.