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Spring Garden, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Quincy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95971. It stands on Squirrel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spring Garden quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,999 feet above sea level.

Spring Garden within Plumas County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Garden, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Spring Garden, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Garden grew from 16 to 19 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201016
202019+3 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Spring Garden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,723 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 3 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
Natural71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2012Smokingunder an acrePlumas National ForestCROSSING
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePlumas National ForestGILL
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestSOCKUM
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestMASSACK
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestGILL
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestWILLIAMS
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestEMPIRE
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestFARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Spring Garden: 22 past producers, 8 unknowns, 6 producers, 5 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium. 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
Feather River Travertine Marble QryMarble, DimensionProducer
OhioGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast ProducerUnderground
OhioCopper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Spring Garden TunnelAsbestosOccurrence
Unnamed LocationTitanium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Sloat Mill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sloat PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Black FeatherGold, SilverPast Producer
De LoneGold, SilverPast Producer
Gold CrownGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Greenhorn2.0 miles27
Argentine (historical)2.2 miles27
English Bar (historical)2.3 miles27
Bells Bar (historical)2.7 miles27
Massack3.5 miles27
Sloat3.7 miles28
Cromberg5.5 miles28
East Quincy6.5 miles29

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 Spring GardenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3060074The 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 1659845. 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.