Tahoe City, California

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.

1891 1992

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 4 records

• Chapel of the Transfigurationlisted 2011
• Lake Tahoe Damlisted 1981
• Watson Log Cabinlisted 1979
• Outlet Gates and Gatekeeper's Cabinlisted 1972

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.

• 1891 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1932 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:96000
• 1940 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Tahoe quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Tahoe City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Tahoe City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Tahoe City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 29 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alpine Meadows
• Comstock Acres
• Rampart
• Tahoe Park
• Tahoe Woods
• Talmont

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tahoe City: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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.

Every working recorded in Placer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tahoe City in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 16 heavy rain, 1 waterspout, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Placer County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659946. 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.