Mesa Vista, California

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

Mesa Vista grew from 200 to 217 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 Freel Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 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 Woodfords quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Smith Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Mesa Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,593 acres in total. 92 started naturally. 2 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:

• Alpine Village
• Woodfords
• Fredericksburg
• Paynesville
• Loope
• Mount Bullion (historical)

Every fire recorded in Alpine County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,936 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mesa Vista between 1894 and 1975: 1,696 Animalia, 147 Fungi, 88 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Bartel, A. Eastwood, A. Grigerick 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
	Aplodontia rufa californica (Peters, 1864)	1894	F. Stephens	Hope Valley
	Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839	1894	F. Stephens	Hope Valley
	Sorex palustris navigator (Baird, 1858)	1894	Frank Stephens	Above Woodfords
	Spermophilus beldingi Merriam, 1888	1894	F. Stephens	Hope Valley
	Tamias quadrimaculatus Gray, 1867	1894	F. Stephens	Markleeville
	Tamias speciosus frater J.A.Allen, 1890	1894	F. Stephens	Markleeville
	Tamiasciurus douglasii (Bachman, 1839)	1894	F. Stephens	Hope Valley
	Vitis californica Benth.	1894	Purpus, C.A.
	Zapus princeps J.A.Allen, 1893	1894	F. Stephens	above Woodfords
	Anacamptodon splachnoides (Froel. ex Brid.) Brid.	1900	Josephine D. Lowe	Burnside
	Setophaga coronata auduboni (J.K.Townsend, 1837)	1910	Collector(s): Milton S. Ray	Cold Creek Meadow, near Star Lake
	Zonotrichia iliaca (Merrem, 1786)	1911	C. Littlejohn	Lake Valley, Star Lake Canyon; Tahoe

All 1,936 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mesa Vista: 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, 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.

Every working 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 1877181. 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.