Nipinnawasee, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Yosemite Lakes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93601. The Survey maps it on the Fish Camp quadrangle. 434 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,930 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1912 to 2004The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresNipinnawasee fell from 475 to 434 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 475 | |
| 2020 | 434 | -41 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Bass Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Shaver Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Fish Camp quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS Fish Camp quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
218 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Nipinnawasee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,181 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined | 74 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Natural | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.8 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ALPACA |
| 8 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | MOORE |
| 8 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | KAMOOK |
| 6 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | PILOT PEAK RD / CREEL RD |
| 4 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 31 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | STUMPFIELD |
| 3 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | CEDARBROOK |
| 29 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Central California District | BORGES |
| 25 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Sierra National Forest | MOTOR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 36 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Nipinnawasee: 14 past producers, 9 prospects, 5 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bass Lake Area | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Joe Devaney Sand & Gravel Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Molybdenum | Unknown | ||
| Enterprise Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Indian Peak Group | Copper | Occurrence | 1897 | |
| Indian Peek Group | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Ward | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Nutter Nos. 1-5 | Tungsten | Unknown | ||
| Victoria Gold-Tungsten Prospect | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| War Baby | Tungsten | Past Producer | Scheelite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahwahnee | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Ahwahnee Estates | 2.8 miles | 25 | |
| Sugar Pine | 5.8 miles | 23 | |
| Grub Gulch (historical) | 5.8 miles | 25 | |
| Yosemite Forks | 5.9 miles | 25 | |
| Bailey Flats (historical) | 5.9 miles | 25 | |
| Oakhurst | 6.9 miles | 25 | |
| Old Corral | 7.4 miles | 24 |
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 Nipinnawasee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6043277 | The 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 1656190. 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.








