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Tahoe Vista, 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 96143. It stands on Griff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kings Beach quadrangle. 1,392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,234 feet above sea level.

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

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Tahoe Vista fell from 1,433 to 1,392 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
20101,433
20201,392-41 (-3%)

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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Tahoe Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 439 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 8 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 ceremony98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Smoking43
Natural20
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitCUTTHROAT
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBEAVER 3
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBEAVER
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitWATSON
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitCANTERBURY
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitOLD
5 September 1996Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitPOLARIS
5 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tahoe Vista: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGoldProspect
Unnamed MineGoldProspect

Every working 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 Estates0.4 miles32
Tahoe Marina Estates0.6 miles32
Wood Vista1.0 miles32
Kingswood Estates1.2 miles34
Kings Beach1.3 miles32
Carnelian Bay1.9 miles32
Brockway Vista1.9 miles32
Brockway2.3 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 Tahoe VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2104291The 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 1662317. 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.