Sierra Vista Park, California

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.

1888 1998

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.

• 1888 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1949 USGS Grass Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Grass Valley quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Grass Valley quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Grass Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Grass Valley quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 891 fires within 5 miles of Sierra Vista Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,573 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 38 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alta Hill
• Alta Vista Park
• Bella Vista Park
• Champion (historical)
• Cypress Hill
• Echo Ridge Estates

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 978 workings within 5 miles of Sierra Vista Park: 524 past producers, 336 occurrences, 83 unknowns, 18 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Nevada County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1682970. 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.