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Pine Grove, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Laguna-Pine Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91916. The Survey maps it on the Tule Springs quadrangle.

Pine Grove within San Diego County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 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 1997
Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

81 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 286,096 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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
Recreation and ceremony32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresCleveland National ForestEL_MONTE
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCleveland National ForestCAPITAN
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego Unitnot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCleveland National ForestBOULDER_2
25 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCleveland National ForestCOTTON
23 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestCONEJOS
23 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresCleveland National ForestBOTTOM
2 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCleveland National ForestSOCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 7 prospects, 6 producers, 6 past producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Feldspar, Uranium. 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
Allanite ProspectUranium, ThoriumProspect
Allen Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Silver King GroupGold, Lead, SilverProspect
JuchIronOccurrence
JuchIronOccurrence
Spanish Bayonet DepositFeldsparProducer
Spanish Bayonet DepositFeldsparPast Producer
Boulder Creek GroupGoldProducer
Boulder Creek GroupGoldPast Producer
Coarse Gold ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in San Diego 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
El Capitan (historical)3.3 miles40
Four Corners4.1 miles40
San Diego Country Estates5.7 miles32
Stallion Oaks6.4 miles33
Hulburd Grove7.5 miles34
The Willows7.6 miles33
Cuyamaca (historical)8.0 miles34
Alpine8.1 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252956. 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.