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Mountain Home Village, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Big Bear census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92359. It stands on Mountain Home Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forest Falls quadrangle. It stands 3,691 feet above sea level.

Mountain Home Village within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mountain Home Village, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Mountain Home Village, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Home Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35,984 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined95
Equipment and vehicle use75
Natural36
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony30
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Debris and open burning6
Other causes4
Smoking4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHAMMONS
6 September 2008Other causes125 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictGARNET
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestFALLS
5 September 2020Fireworks22,744 acresSan Bernardino UnitEL DORADO
3 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitFIR AV / FREMONT ST
28 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use225 acresSan Bernardino UnitHATCHERY
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestHAIRPIN
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Home Village: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Eagle Mining Co.GoldProspect
Mentone SandstoneFlagstonePast Producer
Mentone SandstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Mountain Home ProspectGoldProspect
So. Calif. SandstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Southern California SandstoneFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino 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
North Bench3.1 miles36
Glen Martin3.2 miles36
Angelus Oaks3.2 miles36
Forest Falls4.3 miles33
Oak Glen4.5 miles33
Pinezanita5.0 miles36
Yucaipa5.2 miles36
Greenspot (historical)6.0 miles36

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 Mountain Home VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6924994The 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 1656579. 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.