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Tollhouse, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93667. It lies near Burrough Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Auberry quadrangle. It stands 1,919 feet above sea level.

Tollhouse within Fresno County

Then and now

1904 to 2004

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tollhouse, surveyed 2004
Topographic sheet of Tollhouse, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Tollhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,668 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 39 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
Equipment and vehicle use93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Debris and open burning61
Arson/incendiarism39
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony3
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 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSierra National ForestTOLLHOUSE
9 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSierra National Forest4 LANE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitBEAL 1
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitBEAL 5
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitBEAL 2
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitBEAL 4
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitBEAL 3
7 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitPG&E #34

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 52 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 52 workings within 5 miles of Tollhouse: 22 past producers, 14 producers, 9 unknowns, 5 prospects. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Tungsten, Emery, REE. 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
Black BowREEProspect
Reported OccurrenceAsbestosUnknown
Blue BrushEmeryProducer
Blue BrushEmeryPast Producer
Adrian AlexanderTungstenProducer
Adrian AlexanderTungstenPast Producer
Home Front and Three BuddiesTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Home ProspectTungstenProspect
HumphreysTungstenUnknown
JackpotTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tollhouse in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 8 flood, 2 debris flow, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017Flash FloodTollhouse$1,000California Highway Patrol reported road flooding near Lodge Road and Wiemiller Road with a vehicle stuck in flood waters west of Tollhouse in Fresno County. Road was temporarily closed to let water subside.
January 2023FloodTollhouse-Public report of mud, dirt and rock slide blocking northbound lane of Tollhouse Rd. 2 miles south of Beal Fire Rd.
January 2023FloodTollhouse-Public report of flooding on the roadway at the intersection of Lodge Rd. and Weimiller Rd.
January 2023FloodTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Tollhouse Rd. in Tollhouse.
March 2023FloodTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported Lodge Rd. at Wiemiller Rd. flooded.
March 2023FloodTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported Tollhouse Rd. between Linson Rd. and Lodge Rd. blocked by a rockslide and trees.
March 2023FloodTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported a landslide and a tree on Tollhouse Rd. 2 miles east of Linson Rd.
December 2022Debris FlowTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported a rockslide blocking the eastbound lane of Tollhouse Rd. at the intersection of Old Tollhouse Rd.
December 2022Debris FlowTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported large builders on the roadway at the intersection of Lodge Rd. and Tollhouse Rd.
January 2017FloodTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported small rockslides on Tollhouse Road near Lodge Road south of Tollhouse due to heavy rain.
February 2017FloodTollhouse-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding near Tollhouse Road and Shaver Springs Road about 5 miles southwest of Shaver Lake in Fresno County.
October 2009Heavy RainTollhouse-An observer with the volunteer program called COCORAHS reported minor flooding caused by heavy rains. The 24 hour rainfall total measured by the volunteer was 4.85 inches, 2 miles south of Tollhouse.

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Alder Springs3.3 miles26
Pineridge3.7 miles27
Meadow Lakes4.6 miles26
Prather6.2 miles29
Sentinel (historical)6.2 miles26
Sierra Cedars6.2 miles27
Auberry6.3 miles26
Ockenden6.5 miles27

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 TollhouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7814402The 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 1660011. 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.