Paintersville, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Isleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95615. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Paintersville within Sacramento County

Then and now

1908 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Paintersville, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of Paintersville, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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.

1908 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1916 USGS Vorden quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1952 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Paintersville between 2001 and 2017, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	LODI
27 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	LODI LEVEE
19 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	COURTLAND
26 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	CANAL THREAT #1
1 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	STONE LAKES
27 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	SUN RIVER
10 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	LIC #1
15 March 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Courtland	0.9 miles	27
Randall	2.8 miles	27
Vorden	3.5 miles	27
Lambert (historical)	3.9 miles	27
Hood	4.6 miles	27
Hood Junction	4.6 miles	27
Ryde	5.7 miles	22
Locke	6.0 miles	27

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 Paintersville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7125066	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 252759. 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.