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Sunnyside, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake Tahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96145. It stands on Ward Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tahoe City quadrangle. It stands 6,260 feet above sea level.

Sunnyside within Placer County

Then and now

1891 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

On record in Sunnyside

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony50
Natural24
Smoking14
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unit64 ACRES
9 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitANN
8 September 2001Other causesunder an acreTahoe National ForestMERTENS
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitRESORT
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitTHUNDER
5 September 1996Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitPOLARIS
4 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBLACKWOOD
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestFIVE LAKES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer 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 Sunnyside: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Squaw Valley GrayelSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Placer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 heavy rain. 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
December 2019Heavy RainSunnyside-SNOTEL near the headwaters of Ward Creek reported 4.90 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 1 December 0000PST to 2 December 2359PST. Station elevation of 6764 ft MSL.
July 2018Heavy RainSunnyside-Mesonet station WRDC1, 2 miles south of Alpine Meadows reported 0.50 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 13 July 2000PST to 14 July 2000PST.

Every storm recorded in Placer 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
Tahoe Park0.2 miles32
Tahoe Woods0.4 miles32
Pine Land0.5 miles32
Talmont0.7 miles32
Twin Peaks Estates1.1 miles32
Comstock Acres1.1 miles32
Timberland1.3 miles32
Rampart2.0 miles32

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640851The 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 1659923. 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.