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Panamint, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Death Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92328. It lies near Magazine Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Panamint quadrangle. It stands 6,302 feet above sea level.

Panamint within Inyo County

Then and now

1908 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Panamint, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Panamint, surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Panamint between 1999 and 2020, burning about 5,868 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSINGLE TRE
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictHOUSE
20 August 2020Naturalunder an acreDeath Valley National ParkTELESCOPE
22 July 2000Debris and open burning5,861 acresDeath Valley National ParkHAPPY
1 July 1999Naturalunder an acreDeath Valley National ParkTELESOPE
25 January 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresDeath Valley National ParkPEAK

Every fire recorded in Inyo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Panamint: 12 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron. 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
American Silver Corp.Gold, SilverPast ProducerGold
AnacondaLead, Silver, Zinc, GoldOccurrence
AnacondaLead, Gold, Silver, ZincUnknown
CurranGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Lacana Mining Inc.Thorium, UraniumUnknown
Little ChiefLead, ZincProspect
MadisonLead, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Mountain GirlGold, Silver, Iron, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Mountain Girl MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Silver
Panamint DistrictTungsten, SilverProducerQUARTZ VEINS

Every working recorded in Inyo 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
Ballarat8.4 miles26
Reilly (historical)16.4 miles25
Harrisburg17.0 miles29
Badwater19.0 miles24
Millspaugh20.0 miles25
Lookout City (historical)20.0 miles26
Millspaugh (historical)20.1 miles25
Skidoo (historical)22.1 miles28

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 PanamintAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3361881The 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 1661185. 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.