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Strawberry, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95735. It sits by Lovers Leap. The Survey maps it on the Pyramid Peak quadrangle. It stands 5,738 feet above sea level.

Strawberry within El Dorado County

Then and now

1889 to 1992

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 Strawberry, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Strawberry, surveyed 1889

Compare 1889 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 35 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Strawberry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 528 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 4 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
Natural84
Recreation and ceremony50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism4
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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National Forest50
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestWRIGHTS
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestBLOOD
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreEldorado National ForestBRYANT
3 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestLYONS II
3 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestROPI
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National ForestWRIGHTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Strawberry: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Iron. 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
Dobbas MineChromium, IronPast Producer

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strawberry in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Flash FloodStrawberry-Caltrans Kyburz Maintenance responded to a mudslide near the Caldor Fire Burn Scar on Eastbound Highway 50 near Strawberry on July 20th, as thunderstorms were producing locally heavy rain over the mountains on this day. The slide did not impact traffic. No observations were available in the area but radar estimated rain amounts of around an inch in under an hour.

Every storm recorded in El Dorado 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
Sciots Camp0.9 miles35
Twin Bridges1.5 miles35
Upper Forni2.3 miles35
Phillips3.9 miles35
Lower Forni4.5 miles35
Nebelhorn6.0 miles35
Echo Lake6.1 miles35
Little Norway6.1 miles35

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 StrawberryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7622396The 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 1659886. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.