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Soda Springs, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Springville-Johnsondale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93257. It stands on Bond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Globe quadrangle.

Soda Springs within Tulare County

Then and now

1904 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Soda Springs, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Soda Springs, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

936 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 936 fires within 5 miles of Soda Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,431 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 721 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
Arson/incendiarism721
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Debris and open burning48
Equipment and vehicle use32
Natural20
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks8
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTule River Fire DepartmentLOOP 3
9 September 1994Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSequoia National ForestTRIBAL
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTule River Fire DepartmentROCKS
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTule River Fire DepartmentGATE
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTule River Fire DepartmentSWITCHBACK
7 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTule River Fire DepartmentDILLION
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTule River Fire DepartmentSYCMORE
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTulare UnitWOLF SRA#73

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Soda Springs: 5 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Limestone, General, Magnesite. 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
Unnamed ProspectsMagnesiteProspect
Blue Creek Canyon LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Florence G.GoldPast Producer
Gibbon Creek LimestoneLimestone, GeneralProspect
The CreeksGoldProspect
Big Mack Tungsten ClaimsTungstenProspect
Good Luck TungstenTungstenPast Producer
Herbert and CrabbTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Mahoning No. 1 Tungsten ProspectTungstenProspect
Tule Indian ReservationTungstenOccurrenceScheelite

Every working recorded in Tulare 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
Wheatons3.0 miles26
Globe5.7 miles27
Smith Mill6.4 miles26
Redwood Corral6.4 miles22
Springville7.0 miles26
Stone Place9.5 miles22
Worth9.5 miles27
Camp Nelson10.6 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661462. 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.