Nevada City, California

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 2000

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 10 records

• Nevada City Free Public LibraryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1990
• Martin Luther Marsh Houselisted 1973
• National Exchange Hotellisted 1973
• Nevada Brewerylisted 1985
• Nevada City Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1985
• Nevada City Firehouse No. 2listed 1974
• Nevada Theatrelisted 1973
• Ott's Assay Officelisted 1975
• Aaron A. Sargent Houselisted 1980
• Davis Milllisted 2010

Nevada City grew from 3,068 to 3,152 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.

• 1888 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1948 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 2000 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 723 fires within 5 miles of Nevada City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,568 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 29 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:

• Champion (historical)
• Glenbrook
• Providence (historical)
• Alta Hill
• Alta Vista Park
• Banner Crest

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 802 workings within 5 miles of Nevada City: 403 past producers, 290 occurrences, 87 unknowns, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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 Nevada County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nevada City in 9 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Nevada 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 1659211. 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.