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Pine Grove, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Pine Grove-Silver Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95665. The Survey maps it on the Pine Grove quadrangle. 2,891 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,513 feet above sea level.

Pine Grove within Amador County

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1889

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Grove grew from 2,219 to 2,891 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
20102,219
20202,891+672 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

388 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 473 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 24 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
Debris and open burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Equipment and vehicle use82
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Natural12
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony8
Other causes1

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 2001Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitCLINTON
6 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitEZELLA CT PIONEER
6 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral California DistrictCHARLESTON
6 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitDIAMOND
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictKATHY
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitREDBERRY
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictPATEL INC
30 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 212 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 212 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 93 occurrences, 52 unknowns, 48 past producers, 14 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Big PineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerGold
Black WonderGold, Copper, Iron, LeadPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Clinton ConsolidatedGold, Silver, Iron, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Silver
Dane and MitchellFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Elmer Evans DepositStone, DimensionOccurrence
Jackass GulchAbrasiveUnknown
PetersonGold, ArsenicPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Pine Grove UnitGold, Copper, ZincPast Producer1938
Stirnaman MineManganese, SilicaPast Producer1917
UnknownGemstoneOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Amador County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Grove in 2 storm reports in 2000: 2 heavy rain. 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
January 2000Heavy RainPine Grove-no account filed
January 2000Heavy RainPine Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Amador 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
Pine Acres1.4 miles28
Irishtown (historical)1.9 miles28
Volcano2.5 miles28
Clinton2.6 miles28
Pioneer4.8 miles28
Milligan District (historical)5.0 miles29
Electra5.6 miles29
Bonnefoy6.1 miles29

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 Pine GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476081The 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 1659391. 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.