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North Bloomfield, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Nevada City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95959. It lies near Buck Mountain. The Survey maps it on the North Bloomfield quadrangle. It stands 3,287 feet above sea level.

North Bloomfield within Nevada County

Then and now

1891 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Bloomfield, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of North Bloomfield, surveyed 1891

On record in North Bloomfield

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of North Bloomfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning30
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony17
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTahoe National ForestRELIEF
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral California DistrictDAVID
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral California DistrictMISSOURI BAR
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTahoe National ForestGRAVE
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestCONSERVATION
4 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTahoe National ForestWHITE
4 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitWHITE CLOUD
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestCONSERVATION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 197 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 197 workings within 5 miles of North Bloomfield: 87 occurrences, 62 unknowns, 41 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Copper. 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
EdisonCopper, GoldOccurrenceVein
FairviewCopper, Gold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Paine BrosGold, Iron, ManganeseProspect
Paine Brs.Gold, Manganese, IronPast ProducerGold, Hematite, Psilomelane, Rhodonite
Relief HillGold, Platinum, Titanium, Metal, ChromiumProducer1851
Asbestos Quartz Lode and MillAsbestosUnknown
Gold Star PlacerSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldUnknown
MohawkAntimonyOccurrence
Mohawk?AntimonyOccurrence
Moore?s Flat DistrictGold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer1851

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Bloomfield in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2016FloodNorth Bloomfield-Four people were rescued Sunday morning after their vehicles were swept away in Greenhorn Creek in Nevada County when they attempted to cross a flooded roadway (Lower Greenhorn Road) that crosses over Greenhorn Creek.||Early Sunday morning, the Nevada County Sheriffs Office Search and Rescue team was called to the creek.||Two teams were dispatched to the river where they found four people located on the left bank of the river awaiting rescue.

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Malakoff (historical)1.1 miles33
Relief2.1 miles34
Lake City2.3 miles33
Snow Tent (historical)2.9 miles33
Woolsey Flat3.4 miles33
Moores Flat4.4 miles33
North Columbia4.7 miles33
Washington5.4 miles34

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 North BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7054205The 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 1659246. 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.