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Plymouth, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sutter Creek-Plymouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95669. The Survey maps it on the Amador City quadrangle. 1,078 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Plymouth 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 Plymouth, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Plymouth, surveyed 1889

Population over time

2 figures

Plymouth grew from 1,005 to 1,078 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
20101,005
20201,078+73 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Plymouth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,045 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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
Equipment and vehicle use67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism22
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Smoking2

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresCentral California District49
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCARBON
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitQUARTZ
6 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSHENANDOAH
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitFIDDLETOWN #4
30 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCREEK
3 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictVALLEY
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitFIDDLETOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 293 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 293 workings within 5 miles of Plymouth: 132 occurrences, 72 past producers, 60 prospects, 20 producers. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Manganese. 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
Amador StarGold, SilverPast ProducerGold, Pyrite, Silver
Bunker HillGold, IronPast Producer1853
Del Porto MarbleLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Grelich Ranch Grelich RanchLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
KeystoneGold, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1851
PioneerGold, Lead, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold
Plymouth ConsolidatedGold, CopperPast Producer1852
Taylor RanchChromium, IronPast Producer1916
Unnamed LocationGemstone, AbrasiveProspect
Wait MarbleLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Amador County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plymouth in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood. 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
December 2022FloodPlymouth-Caltrans District 10 reported on Twitter that SR-49 was closed in Plymouth at Shenandoah Rd. due to flooding. The closure extended into El Dorado County. On the California Highway Patrol Incident log it was reported at 3:30 am that water was 2 ft deep and that at 5:40am the road was closed.
May 1998Funnel CloudPlymouth-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
Pokerville (historical)0.8 miles30
Drytown2.9 miles30
New Chicago3.1 miles30
Lower Rancheria (historical)3.3 miles30
Bunker Hill3.9 miles30
Enterprise4.0 miles33
Amador City4.4 miles30
Fiddletown5.0 miles33

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 PlymouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2116642The 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 277579. 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.