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Tambo, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Marysville Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95901. The Survey maps it on the Yuba City quadrangle. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Tambo within Yuba County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tambo, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Tambo, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

263 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Tambo between 1995 and 2020, burning about 795 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined132
Debris and open burning51
Equipment and vehicle use45
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitOSWALT
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitHALLWOOD BL / WALNUT AV
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitHIGHWAY 70
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitHWY 20 / PLANTZ RD
6 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitROLLIN
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitWALNUT
3 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitLOMA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuba 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 Tambo: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Baldwin Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hallwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marysville Rock Products CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Yuba 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
Mello2.4 miles25
Bliss (historical)2.5 miles21
Ramirez2.8 miles21
Coombs (historical)4.6 miles21
Binney Junction5.7 miles25
Dantoni6.1 miles25
Iowa City6.4 miles27
Marysville6.5 miles25

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 Q7681039The 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 1659954. 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.