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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.

Nipinnawasee within Madera County

Then and now

1912 to 2004

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Nipinnawasee, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Nipinnawasee, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Nipinnawasee 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.

YearPeople Change
2010475
2020434-41 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

218 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use40
Natural23
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
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 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.8 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitALPACA
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitMOORE
8 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestKAMOOK
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitPILOT PEAK RD / CREEL RD
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use31 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitSTUMPFIELD
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestCEDARBROOK
29 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCentral California DistrictBORGES
25 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestMOTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bass Lake AreaUraniumOccurrence
Joe Devaney Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverProducer
Unnamed LocationMolybdenumUnknown
Enterprise MineGold, CopperPast Producer
Indian Peak GroupCopperOccurrence1897
Indian Peek GroupCopperProspect
WardCopperOccurrence
Nutter Nos. 1-5TungstenUnknown
Victoria Gold-Tungsten ProspectTungstenProspect
War BabyTungstenPast ProducerScheelite

Every working recorded in Madera 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
Ahwahnee2.7 miles25
Ahwahnee Estates2.8 miles25
Sugar Pine5.8 miles23
Grub Gulch (historical)5.8 miles25
Yosemite Forks5.9 miles25
Bailey Flats (historical)5.9 miles25
Oakhurst6.9 miles25
Old Corral7.4 miles24

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 NipinnawaseeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6043277The 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.