Pole Garden, California

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1924 1996

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.

• 1924 USGS Bartlett Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Bartlett Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Bartlett Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Clearlake Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Barlett Springs quadrangle1:24000
• 1989 USGS Bartlett Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Lakeport quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS Bartlett Springs quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pole Garden between 1992 and 2018, burning about 361 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bartlett Springs
• Newman Springs
• Barkerville (historical)
• Hough Springs
• Lucerne
• Nice

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pole Garden: 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mineral Pigments. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lake County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 264908. 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.