Mineral King, California

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1988

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 5 records

• Barton-Lackey Cabinlisted 1978
• Generals' Highway Stone Bridgeslisted 1978
• Mineral King Road Cultural Landscapelisted 2003
• Pear Lake Ski Hutlisted 1978
• Quinn Ranger Stationlisted 1977

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.

• 1904 USGS Kaweah quadrangle1:125000
• 1909 USGS Kaweah quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1937 USGS Kaweah quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Mineral King quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Mineral King quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Three Rivers quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Mineral King quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Mineral King between 1992 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Cabin Cove
• Silver City
• Oak Grove

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Mineral King: 9 occurrences, 7 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Zinc, 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 Tulare County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral King in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 2 wildfire, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 7 injuries. 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 Tulare 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 1667918. 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.