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Skinners, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95682. It lies near Pine Hill. The Survey maps it on the Shingle Springs quadrangle. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Skinners within El Dorado County

Then and now

1891 to 1976

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Skinners, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of Skinners, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

1,153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,153 fires within 5 miles of Skinners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,023 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 84 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/undetermined411
Equipment and vehicle use385
Debris and open burning135
Arson/incendiarism84
Misuse of fire by a minor63
Smoking30
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural8
Other causes3
Fireworks2

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 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionNEUMANN
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unit50
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictRANCHERIA
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitGREEN
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitRITE
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCIMMARON
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBASS
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitAMBUSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 157 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 157 workings within 5 miles of Skinners: 67 occurrences, 46 unknowns, 35 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brandon RichardsonTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceSoapstone
Drumlummon ClaimCopper, Silver, ZincProspect
Foothill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pilot KnobSilver, GoldOccurrence
Joerger MineChromium, IronPast Producer1918
RelianceIronOccurrence
RelianceIronUnknown
Unidentified WorkingCopperOccurrence
Walker MineChromium, IronPast Producer1917
BonesetGold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite

Every working recorded in El Dorado 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
Cameron Airpark Estates1.3 miles32
Briarwood Canyon2.0 miles29
Green Springs Ranch2.1 miles29
Cameron Park2.1 miles32
Cambridge Oaks2.3 miles29
Rescue2.5 miles32
Bar J Ranch2.7 miles29
Jayhawk2.7 miles32

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 SkinnersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7535533The 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 1659678. 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.