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Shaver Lake Heights, California

27 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 Shaver Lake quadrangle. It stands 5,600 feet above sea level.

Shaver Lake Heights 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 Shaver Lake Heights, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Shaver Lake Heights, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 27 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Shaver Lake Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 316 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning49
Equipment and vehicle use44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony27
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism23
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National Forest4 LANE
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSierra National ForestLOOKOUT
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSierra National ForestVISTA
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno 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 Shaver Lake Heights: 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
Lemmons MineGoldUnknown

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
Shaver Lake0.2 miles27
Dora Belle0.4 miles27
Ockenden1.3 miles27
Rock Haven1.3 miles28
Old Bretz Mill2.1 miles27
Sierra Cedars2.2 miles27
Mathews Mill3.0 miles27
Pineridge3.7 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 Q7491090The 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 275885. 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.