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Sugar Pine, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Oakhurst-North Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93644. The Survey maps it on the Fish Camp quadrangle. It stands 4,236 feet above sea level.

Sugar Pine within Madera County

Then and now

1912 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sugar Pine, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Sugar Pine, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Pine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,071 acres in total. 39 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
Recreation and ceremony63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Natural39
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestKAMOOK
7 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestBUFFIN
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National ForestCORLIEU
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresSierra National ForestFALLS
3 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSierra National ForestCORLIEU
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSierra National ForestCEDARBROOK
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremony3.3 acresSierra National ForestLAUREL
28 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitBASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Pine: 6 prospects, 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium, Gold, Magnesite. 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
Beechnut ClaimMagnesiteProducer
Beechnut ClaimManganeseProspect
CrestlineGold, SilverProspect
Unnamed LocationMolybdenumUnknown
DorisGoldProspect
Bass Lake AreaUraniumOccurrence
Fig Zircon SpringsUraniumProspect
Red LedgeUraniumProspect
FlemingTungstenUnknown
Red Lily ClaimsTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Madera 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
Yosemite Forks5.1 miles25
Nipinnawasee5.8 miles23
Old Corral6.0 miles24
Ahwahnee Estates6.1 miles25
Ahwahnee7.1 miles25
Oakhurst7.8 miles25
Bass Lake8.8 miles24
The Pines9.5 miles24

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 Sugar PineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7634885The 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 1656338. 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.