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River Pines, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Sutter Creek-Plymouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95675. It stands on Slate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aukum quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,985 feet above sea level.

River Pines within Amador County

Then and now

1891 to 1976

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of River Pines, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of River Pines, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

River Pines grew from 379 to 390 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
2010379
2020390+11 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of River Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,816 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Debris and open burning65
Equipment and vehicle use61
Natural15
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1999Natural1.0 acresCentral California DistrictOMO
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitQUARTZ
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitSEABIRD
6 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSHENANDOAH
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitFIDDLETOWN #4
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBERTONE
30 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSHENANDOAH
3 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresCentral California DistrictDAGOSTINI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 107 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 107 workings within 5 miles of River Pines: 51 occurrences, 28 unknowns, 16 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Silver, Gemstone. 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
Indian GulchAbrasiveOccurrence
Willa PlaceChromiumProspect
Quartz PlacersQuartzUnknown
UnknownQuartzOccurrence
UnknownCopperOccurrence
Unnamed LocationCopperOccurrence
Chrysoprase and Moss Opal DepositsGemstoneOccurrence
UnknownGemstoneOccurrence
UnknownGemstoneOccurrence
ClarkGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working 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
Fiddletown3.0 miles33
Enterprise5.5 miles33
Plymouth6.9 miles30
Pokerville (historical)7.6 miles30
Lower Rancheria (historical)8.5 miles30
New Chicago9.0 miles30
Volcano9.3 miles28
Drytown9.3 miles30

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 River PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6645077The 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 1659517. 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.