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Slates Hot Springs, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Big Sur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93920. It lies near Hot Springs Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Lopez Point OE W quadrangle. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Slates Hot Springs within Monterey County

Then and now

1921 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Slates Hot Springs, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Slates Hot Springs, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Slates Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124,980 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Natural1
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 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreLos Padres National ForestFLARE
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreLos Padres National ForestLIME
8 September 1999Naturalunder an acreLos Padres National ForestGOOD DEAL
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLos Padres National ForestSOUTHCOAST
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLos Padres National ForestPARTINGTON
28 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLos Padres National ForestCENTER
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined124,924 acresLos Padres National ForestDOLAN
4 July 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLos Padres National ForestROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Slates Hot Springs: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Limestone, General. 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
Dolan's Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Marble PeakLimestone, GeneralProspectSedimentary
Marble PeakLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Slate's Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Monterey 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
Lucia8.4 miles24
Tassajara Hot Springs9.0 miles23
Posts9.9 miles17
Arroyo Center11.6 miles26
Big Sur13.6 miles25
Millers Ranch14.1 miles21
Gorda15.9 miles29
Sycamore Flat16.3 miles21

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 Slates Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7538920The 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 1670900. 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.