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Raffetto, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the North El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95726. It stands on Little Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle. It stands 4,701 feet above sea level.

Raffetto within El Dorado County

Then and now

1889 to 1976

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Raffetto, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of Raffetto, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Raffetto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,442 acres in total. 28 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony85
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestPAPA
6 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestBALL
6 September 1993Smokingunder an acreEldorado National Forestnot named
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEldorado National ForestYELLOW
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National ForestTIE
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National ForestJONES
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreEldorado National ForestMISTY
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEldorado National ForestBOSWORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Raffetto: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Onion CreekGoldUnknown

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
Jones Place3.9 miles30
Campana4.4 miles34
McConnel Place4.6 miles32
Leonardi5.2 miles34
Short Place6.0 miles32
White Hall6.4 miles32
Riverton6.4 miles32
McManus6.6 miles31

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 Q7282552The 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 1659456. 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.