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Sierra Village, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Twain Harte-Tuolumne City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95346. It stands on Sugarpine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Twain Harte quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,787 feet above sea level.

Sierra Village within Tuolumne County

Then and now

1891 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 110 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 Village, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Sierra Village, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Sierra Village fell from 456 to 411 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
2010456
2020411-45 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

351 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Sierra Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined124
Debris and open burning87
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony27
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Smoking14
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2012Smokingunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitTUOLUMNE
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestLEWIS
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestLIZZY 1
9 September 1999Natural4.0 acresStanislaus National ForestBROWNS
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresTuolumne-Calaveras Unit3N90
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitLAKEVIEW
7 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitF #691 - FC ULVEVADET
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Sierra Village: 27 occurrences, 15 past producers, 14 producers, 9 prospects. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Lead. 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
Jack Fray RanchManganeseOccurrence
Lucky Strike ClaimGold, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Morning GloryGold, Copper, LeadOccurrence
New MamothLead, ZincOccurrence
Pink Rock Qtz.Quartz, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Sivori and Lucky Strike GroupTungsten, GoldOccurrenceScheelite
WashingtonGold, CopperProspect
Confidence GroupGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold
GemGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite
Morning GloryGold, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Pyrite

Every working recorded in Tuolumne 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
Tall Timber Camp0.1 miles30
Mi-Wuk Village0.8 miles30
Sylvan Lodge1.2 miles30
High Sierra Park1.5 miles30
Sugarpine1.8 miles30
Confidence2.3 miles30
Long Barn2.5 miles30
Lakewood Park2.6 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 Sierra VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6645369The 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 1682553. 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.