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Pinto Wye, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Chuckwalla Valley census division. The Survey maps it on the Queen Mountain quadrangle.

Pinto Wye within Riverside County

Then and now

1953 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pinto Wye, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pinto Wye, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Pinto Wye between 1993 and 2019, burning about 780 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 3 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2005Naturalunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentGEOLOGY TR
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentPINTO
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentBOWE
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentSNAG
25 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentBLACK POST
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentQUEEN1
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acreJoshua Tree National MonumentQUEEN2
23 August 2006Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictKIRK

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Pinto Wye: 27 prospects, 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, REE. 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
Gold Park DistrictGold, Copper, Lead, Vanadium, ZincOccurrenceVANADATE
Unnamed QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Waters Limestone Deposit WatersLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Ajax ProspectREEProspect
Baby Blue ProspectREEProspect
Live Oak Tank AreaUraniumOccurrence
Peerless Nuclear Minerals DepositsUraniumProspect
Black Warrior MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Desert Queen MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Mymine MineGold, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Riverside 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
Indio Hills17.2 miles25
Pushawalla Palms19.4 miles28
Macomber Palms19.8 miles28
Sky Valley19.8 miles18
Biskra Palms20.2 miles28
Hidden Palms20.4 miles28
Willis Palms21.2 miles28
Myoma (historical)23.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122548945The 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 1661232. 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.