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Mowry Landing, California

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Fremont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94560. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Mowry Landing within Alameda County

Then and now

1899 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mowry Landing, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Mowry Landing, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 37 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Mowry Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,102 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/undetermined196
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2010Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresDon Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife RefugeMAYHEWS LANDING FIRE
27 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Mowry Landing: 22 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Salt, Halite. 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
Dumbarton MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morton Salt Co.HaliteProducer
Taylor and PitcherManganese, Salt, SilicaPast Producer
Leslie Salt CoSaltProducer
Newark Evaporation PondsSaltProducer
Dumbarton QuarryStonePast Producer
Dumbarton QuarryStonePast Producer
Durham PitStoneProducer
Bell Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bell Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alameda 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
Albrae1.7 miles29
Newark2.0 miles37
Irvington District2.8 miles26
Mattos2.8 miles37
Jarvis Landing2.9 miles37
Fremont3.3 miles26
Centerville District3.5 miles26
Drawbridge (historical)3.6 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 Mowry LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6927334The 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 1659188. 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.