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Mohawk Vista, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Graeagle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96103. It stands on Betterton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blairsden quadrangle. 107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,944 feet above sea level.

Mohawk Vista within Plumas County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mohawk Vista, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mohawk Vista, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Mohawk Vista fell from 159 to 107 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
2010159
2020107-52 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Mohawk Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 15 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
Natural48
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePlumas National ForestJOHNSVILLE
8 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDELLEKER
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestC
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestHORSE
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestPEN
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acrePlumas National ForestROAD
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestBOB
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Mohawk Vista: 7 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver. 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
Big Mohawk MineCopperUnknown
Feather River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Frazer QueenGold, SilverPast Producer
Frazier Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Willow Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
AntelopeGoldOccurrence
Brown BearGoldUnknown
BullionGoldOccurrence
LauraGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Dentens (historical)1.9 miles29
Blairsden2.0 miles29
Graeagle2.3 miles29
Bontes (historical)2.4 miles29
Clio2.6 miles28
Feather River Park2.7 miles28
Feather River Inn (historical)2.8 miles28
Delaney (historical)3.0 miles29

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 Mohawk VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2737704The 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 1853401. 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.