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Nuestro, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Yuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95953. The Survey maps it on the Sutter quadrangle.

Nuestro within Sutter County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nuestro, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Nuestro, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

416 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Nuestro between 2002 and 2020, burning about 367 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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/undetermined308
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony5

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitTHORNTREE MARYSVILLE_FD
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitRIVER FRONT PARK MARYSVIL
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitB ST / TRIPLETT WY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sutter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nuestro: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Spreckert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sutter 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
Pease (historical)0.8 miles23
Sanders1.3 miles23
Berg1.9 miles23
Sullivan1.9 miles23
Encinal2.2 miles23
Tierra Buena2.4 miles23
Colusa Junction2.5 miles23
Lomo2.8 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122553500The 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 1659262. 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.