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Rock Haven, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93664. It lies near Mount Stevenson. The Survey maps it on the Musick Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,774 feet above sea level.

Rock Haven within Fresno County

Then and now

1904 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock Haven, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Rock Haven, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 28 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Rock Haven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 512 acres in total. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use33
Recreation and ceremony24
Natural22
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSierra National ForestLOOKOUT
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestTAM
6 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSierra National ForestJOSE 2
6 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.7 acresSierra National ForestJOSE
6 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestSWANSON
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestSWANSON
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitPOINT
25 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestBALD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rock Haven: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Marble, Dimension, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Edna B. PlacerLimestone, Dimension, Marble, DimensionProspect
Lemmons MineGoldUnknown
San Joaquin Marble CoStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Haven in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 1 debris flow, 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
March 2023FloodRock Haven-California Highway Patrol reported trees and debris blocking SR 168 near Shaver Lake.
December 2021Debris FlowRock Haven-California Highway Patrol reported a rockslide blocking the westbound lanes of SR 168 near Cressman Rd.

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Dora Belle0.9 miles27
Shaver Lake Heights1.3 miles27
Shaver Lake1.5 miles27
Ockenden2.6 miles27
Mathews Mill2.8 miles27
Old Bretz Mill3.2 miles27
Sierra Cedars3.5 miles27
Pineridge4.8 miles27

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 Q7354457The 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 1659532. 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.