South Wawona, California

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 2004

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.

• Wawona Hotel and PavilionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975 · 0.7 miles away
• Acting Superintendent's Headquarterslisted 1978 · 0.6 miles away
• Yosemite Transportation Company Officelisted 1978 · 0.6 miles away
• Wawona Covered Bridgelisted 2007 · 0.6 miles away
• Hodgdon Homestead Cabinlisted 1978 · 0.7 miles away
• Chris Jorgenson Studiolisted 1979 · 0.7 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.

• 1897 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000
• 1903 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
• 1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Wawona quadrangle1:24000
• 1992 USGS Wawona quadrangle1:24000
• 2004 USGS Wawona quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of South Wawona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,366 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 2 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:

• North Wawona
• North Wawona (historical)
• South Wawona (historical)
• Wawona
• Fish Camp

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Wawona: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Iron. 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 Mariposa 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 275734. 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.