Sonora Knolls, California

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Tuolumne County Jaillisted 1978 · 0.4 miles away
• Tuolumne County Courthouselisted 1981 · 0.4 miles away
• City Hotellisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• Sugg Houselisted 1984 · 0.6 miles away
• Cady Houselisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
• Tuolumne County Courthouse (Boundary Increase)listed 2007 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1893 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
• 1896 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1898 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Oakdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,021 fires within 5 miles of Sonora Knolls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,408 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 58 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:

• Volponi Acres
• Browns Flat
• Cuesta Oaks
• Fairway Acres
• Gibbs Ranch
• Jamestown

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 393 workings within 5 miles of Sonora Knolls: 150 unknowns, 99 past producers, 66 producers, 66 occurrences. 67 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Gold, 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 Tuolumne County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1785586. 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.