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Stony Creek Village, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodlake-Three Rivers census division. It stands on Woodward Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muir Grove quadrangle.

Stony Creek Village within Tulare County

Then and now

1903 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stony Creek Village, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Stony Creek Village, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Stony Creek Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,330 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural69
Recreation and ceremony52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestWOOD
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestHART
7 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestWEAVER
7 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestWEAVER
6 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestBIG
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestCAMP
5 September 2003Natural5.4 acresSequoia National ForestAGNEW
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksMICROWAVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Stony Creek Village: 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Copper, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gray EagleGold, Copper, SilverProspect
Hart ProspectsCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Black PrinceGold, Silver, CopperProspect
DomingoGold, Silver, CopperUnknown
Hart GroupCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Redwood CanyonTungsten, Copper, Gold, SilverPast ProducerPowellite, Scheelite
KirklandCopperOccurrence
KirklandCopperUnknown
Redwood Canyon MinesTungstenPast Producer
Stony CreekTungstenOccurrenceScheelite

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
Red Fir5.7 miles26
Hartland6.2 miles27
Pinewood7.4 miles26
Wilsonia7.8 miles27
Grant Grove Village8.3 miles27
Sierra Glen8.6 miles23
Badger9.4 miles23
Potwisha10.3 miles26

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.

Wikidata item Q122597264The 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 1667539. 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.