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Sawmill Flat, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93664. It stands on West Fork Long Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patterson Mountain quadrangle. It stands 6,755 feet above sea level.

Sawmill Flat within Fresno County

Then and now

1922 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sawmill Flat, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Sawmill Flat, surveyed 1922

Compare 1922 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Sawmill Flat between 1992 and 2019, burning about 988 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural49
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestCARELESS
9 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestWISHON
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestKINGS
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National ForestGROVE
4 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestHAIR
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestPATT
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSierra National ForestGROVE
30 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National ForestBOAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sawmill Flat: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Tungsten, Bismuth, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Deer Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Garnet Dike MineTungsten, BismuthProducerScheelite
VictoryTungstenUnknown
Victory MineTungstenPast ProducerScheelite

Every working 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
Balch Camp7.2 miles26
Rodgers Crossing9.2 miles25
Crabtree9.5 miles25
Dinkey Creek11.0 miles28
Bretz Mill12.7 miles28
Goodmill13.0 miles25
Hume Station13.5 miles27
Hume13.9 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 Q7428662The 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 1659606. 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.