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Sugarloaf Saw Mill, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Springville-Johnsondale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93260. It lies near Sugarloaf Peak. The Survey maps it on the Tobias Peak quadrangle. 14 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,446 feet above sea level.

Sugarloaf Saw Mill within Tulare County

Then and now

1936 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sugarloaf Saw Mill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sugarloaf Saw Mill, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Sugarloaf Saw Mill fell from 18 to 14 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
201018
202014-4 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Sugarloaf Saw Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 21 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestSUGAR
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestMEADOW
30 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSequoia National ForestSTARVATION
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestDEER
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestRABBIT
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictGRANITE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestPASS
23 September 2011Natural8.0 acresSequoia National ForestSUNDAY

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 Sugarloaf Saw Mill: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Molybdenum, Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Uranium. 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
Big Four No. 1UraniumUnknown
White River ClaimsMolybdenum, Copper, SilverOccurrenceMolybdenite
White River ProspectMolybdenum, Copper, SilverOccurrenceVein
WingroveMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite
WingroveMolybdenumOccurrenceVein
WingroveMolybdenumUnknown
Anita MayTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Anita MayTungstenProspect
Billy Boy GroupTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Billy Boy GroupTungstenUnknown

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
Guernsey Mill0.2 miles22
Sugarloaf Mountain Park0.8 miles22
White River Summer Home Tract1.0 miles22
Sugarloaf Village1.1 miles22
Spear Creek Summer Home Tract1.7 miles22
Poso Park1.9 miles22
Panorama Heights2.2 miles22
Pleasant View2.4 miles22

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 Sugarloaf Saw MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6135315The 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 1667620. 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.