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Pinecrest, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Twain Harte-Tuolumne City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95364. It stands on Sheering Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pinecrest quadrangle. It stands 5,679 feet above sea level.

Pinecrest within Tuolumne County

Then and now

1896 to 2001

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 Pinecrest, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Pinecrest, surveyed 1896

On record in Pinecrest

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Pinecrest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,846 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 4 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
Natural72
Recreation and ceremony56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes3
Fireworks2

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 2011Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestTROUT
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestFIR
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestPAM
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestTRANSFER
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStanislaus National ForestHERRING
7 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreStanislaus National ForestMEADOW
7 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreStanislaus National ForestSTRAW
7 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreStanislaus National ForestSCHOOL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pinecrest: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. 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
Edna JamesGold, SilverPast Producer
Aggregate PlacerGoldProspect
RiversideGoldPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Tuolumne County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinecrest in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
May 2018HailPinecrest-Hail covered the ground to a depth of just over 2 inches. Most of the hail was pea size, but the larger hailstones were as large as nickels and quarters. The hail for about 15 minutes.
January 2001Heavy RainPinecrest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuolumne 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
Strawberry1.2 miles28
Bumblebee2.6 miles28
Cow Creek3.6 miles28
Cold Springs3.8 miles28
Spring Gap6.1 miles28
Camp Pendola8.6 miles29
Long Barn10.1 miles30
High Sierra Park11.1 miles30

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 PinecrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14229394The 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 1659782. 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.