Prairie City, California

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 1994

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.

• 1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
• 1914 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1967 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1975 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 333 fires within 5 miles of Prairie City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,415 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 34 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:

• Malby Crossing
• White Rock
• Glenborough
• Folsom Junction
• Natoma
• Walltown

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Prairie City: 22 past producers, 19 producers, 17 occurrences, 1 unknown. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Platinum, Silver. 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 Sacramento County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656231. 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.