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Tahoe Pines, 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 96141. It stands on Blackwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Homewood quadrangle. It stands 6,230 feet above sea level.

Tahoe Pines 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 Tahoe Pines, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Tahoe Pines, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Tahoe Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 25 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
Recreation and ceremony54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural25
Debris and open burning15
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2

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
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestPEN
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitMCKINNEY
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBUCK 2
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitRESORT
4 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBLACKWOOD
4 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionW LAKE BL NORTH_TAHOE_FD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tahoe Pines: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Arsenic. 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
Tahoe Treasure ProspectGold, Copper, ArsenicPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Tahoe Treasure ProspectGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Placer County

Storms near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tahoe Pines in 7 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 7 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
August 2024Heavy RainTahoe Pines-Mesonet station (WRDC1-SNOTEL) located 2.4 mi S of Alpine Meadows, CA, reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 0.50 inches.
November 2023Heavy RainTahoe Pines-A mesonet station (WRDC1-SNOTEL) located 2.4 mi S of Alpine Meadows, CA, reported a rainfall storm total of 0.80 inches.
December 2023Heavy RainTahoe Pines-Mesonet stations (WRDC1) located 2.4 mi S of Alpine Meadows, CA (SNOTEL), mesonet station (THOC1) located 0.8 mi W of Tahoe City, CA (SNOTEL), and mesonet station (TRUC1) located 2.0 mi SE of Truckee, CA (SNOTEL) reported 24hr rainfall storm totals of 2.2 inches, 1.3 inches, and 0.8 inches respectively.
October 2021Heavy RainTahoe Pines-CoCoRahs Observers, trained spotters, and Mesonet/ASOS sites reported rainfall amounts ranging from 1.0-2.0 near Alpine Meadows ski resort, 2.0-5.0 in and around Homewood, CA, and as much as 6.0 at Tahoe City, CA.
March 2018Heavy RainTahoe Pines-Mesonet station WRDC1, 2 miles south of Alpine Meadows reported 7.30 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 0600PST to 23 March 0600PST.
April 2018Heavy RainTahoe Pines-Mesonet station WRDC1, 2 miles south of Alpine Meadows (elevation 6764 feet) reported 3.40 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 0800PST to 7 April 0800PST.
April 2018Heavy RainTahoe Pines-Trained weather spotter 1 mile north-northwest of Homewood measured 2.93 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 1046PST to 7 April 1046PST.

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
Idlewild0.3 miles32
Homewood1.2 miles32
Timberland1.6 miles32
Pine Land2.2 miles32
Chambers Lodge2.4 miles32
Chamberlands Estates2.5 miles32
Tahoe Park2.6 miles32
Sunnyside2.7 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.

Wikidata item Q7675619The 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 1659947. 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.