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Martell, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Ione census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95642. It stands on Oneida Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,486 feet above sea level.

Martell within Amador County

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Martell, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Martell, surveyed 1889

Population over time

2 figures

Martell fell from 282 to 207 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.

YearPeople Change
2010282
2020207-75 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Martell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 867 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined90
Equipment and vehicle use86
Debris and open burning48
Arson/incendiarism24
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitPINE
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSUNSET
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSUTTER
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitSUNSET
6 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral California DistrictSHAKERIDGE
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitBUTTE
30 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCREEK
30 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 293 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 293 workings within 5 miles of Martell: 118 occurrences, 80 past producers, 68 prospects, 18 producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Manganese. 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
Allen RanchGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
AnitaGold, Copper, IronPast ProducerGold, Iron
Ayers, CharlersStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Bunker HillGold, IronPast Producer1853
Central EurekaGold, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Lead, CopperProducer1855
Ellis PropertyChromium, IronProspect
G. J. AlexanderStone, DimensionOccurrence
Johnson RanchCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceUnderground
KennedyGold, LeadPast Producer1856
KeystoneGold, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1851

Every working recorded in Amador 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
Sutter Hill0.8 miles30
Jackson1.7 miles29
Sutter Creek1.8 miles30
Bonnefoy2.4 miles29
Scottsville3.1 miles29
Amador City3.9 miles30
Bunker Hill4.5 miles30
Sunnybrook4.6 miles28

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 MartellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458384The 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 228158. 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.