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Sierra Cedars, 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. The Survey maps it on the Shaver Lake quadrangle. It stands 5,794 feet above sea level.

Sierra Cedars 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 Sierra Cedars, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Sierra Cedars, 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Sierra Cedars between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 21 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 burning58
Equipment and vehicle use44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony28
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestSWANSON
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestSWANSON
26 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSierra National ForestBASIN
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitPOINT
26 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSierra National ForestBLUE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sierra Cedars: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, 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
Bradley & EckstromChromiumUnknown
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
Old Bretz Mill0.6 miles27
Ockenden1.0 miles27
Shaver Lake2.0 miles27
Shaver Lake Heights2.2 miles27
Dora Belle2.6 miles27
Pineridge2.9 miles27
Rock Haven3.5 miles28
Bretz Mill4.5 miles28

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 Q7511352The 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 275895. 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.