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Snow Creek, California

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Palm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92282. It lies near Snow Canyon. The Survey maps it on the White Water quadrangle.

Snow Creek within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Snow Creek, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Snow Creek, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 40 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

624 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 624 fires within 5 miles of Snow Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94,569 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 51 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/undetermined277
Smoking108
Equipment and vehicle use102
Arson/incendiarism51
Recreation and ceremony19
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Natural16
Debris and open burning14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2
Firearms and explosives use2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictFREEMAN
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestRIDGE
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRiverside UnitESPERANZA
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitBONITA
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRiverside UnitSTATE
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestCINCOTTA
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino National Forestnot named
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL 14823

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Snow Creek: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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
Desert Rainbow ClaimsGoldProspect
Unnamed Silica Sand OccurrenceSilicaOccurrence
Beaumont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southern Pacific Co. DepositsLimestone, General, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitewater Rock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fingal DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Guiberson DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Guiberson DepositLimestone, GeneralProspect
Mammoth 7 Limestone ClaimLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Riverside 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
White Water3.4 miles40
Mons4.0 miles40
Bonnie Bell4.6 miles40
Cabazon5.8 miles40
Pine Wood5.9 miles40
Garnet7.4 miles39
Owl7.5 miles40
North Palm Springs7.8 miles39

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 Snow CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191828The 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 249622. 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.