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Pino Grande, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the North El Dorado census division. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slate Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,022 feet above sea level.

Pino Grande within El Dorado County

Then and now

1891 to 1976

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 Pino Grande, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of Pino Grande, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 31 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Pino Grande between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 26 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
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
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
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEldorado National ForestKING
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreEldorado National ForestSAND
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestSTUMPY
5 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreEldorado National ForestQUINTETTE
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National ForestPILOT
29 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEldorado National ForestBLODGETT
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestSTUMPY..
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEldorado National ForestWHALER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Pino Grande: 12 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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
R. S. T. ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
R.S.T. ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
BadgerGoldOccurrencePlacer
BadgerGoldUnknown
BeaverGoldUnknown
Bret HarteGoldPast ProducerGold
Bret HarteGoldUnknown
Bret Harte Safeguard No. 1GoldOccurrence
Cow BellGoldOccurrencePlacer
Cow BellGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in El Dorado 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
Claussenius1.8 miles31
Fairbanks2.4 miles31
Deer View2.9 miles31
Soapweed3.4 miles31
Old Pino3.8 miles31
Quintette4.5 miles34
Leonardi4.8 miles34
Campana5.7 miles34

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 Pino GrandeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7196375The 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 252767. 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.