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Toms Place, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mammoth Lakes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93546. It lies near Whisky Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Toms Place quadrangle. It stands 7,090 feet above sea level.

Toms Place within Mono County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Toms Place, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Toms Place, surveyed 1914

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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Toms Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,897 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
3 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
23 September 2007Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestIRIS
17 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreInyo National ForestTOMS
17 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreInyo National ForestGORGE
17 September 1992Naturalunder an acreInyo National Forestnot named
13 September 2015Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestRED
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestROUND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mono 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 Toms Place: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Tungsten. 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
UnknownTungstenProducer
Delta PlacerPumiceProducer
Delta Placer MinePumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Mono County

Storms near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toms Place in 13 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 10 heavy rain, 1 debris flow, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2025HailToms Place1 hurtCalifornia Highway Patrol reported accumulating pea size hail. This resulted in a rollover accident.
February 2025Heavy RainToms Place-A CocoRAHS station (CA-MN-6 Mono City), CA, located 5.0 mi NNW of Lee Vining, CA, and CocoRAHS station (CA-MN-5 Mammoth Lakes), CA, located 1.0 mi SW of Toms Place, CA, reported total rainfall amounts of 0.61 inches and 0.50 inches.
March 2023FloodToms Place-Inyo County sheriff reported Lower Rock Creek Road/Old Sherwin Grade Road along lower Rock Creek closed due to flooding. The community of Paradise, CA, was cut-off and had been advised to shelter-in-place.
January 2019Heavy RainToms Place-CoCoRaHS station CA-MN-4 4 miles southeast of Toms Place reported 1.88 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 16 January 0700PST to 17 January 0700PST.
July 2018Heavy RainToms Place-RAWS, 1 mile northwest of Toms Place (elevation 7103 feet) reported 1.14 inches of rainfall in a 6-hour period from 12 July 1604PST to 12 July 2204PST.
March 2018Heavy RainToms Place-Mesonet station RCEC1 at Toms Place reported 1.55 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 0604PST to 23 March 0604PST.
March 2018Heavy RainToms Place-Mesonet station TS037, 3 northeast of Toms Place reported 1.28 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 0612PST to 23 March 0612PST.
May 2018Heavy RainToms Place-A trained weather spotter reported 0.61 inches of rainfall from 20 May 2300PST to 21 May 0600PST.
August 2018Heavy RainToms Place-Trained weather spotter 1 mile southwest of Toms Place reported 0.86 inches of rainfall in a 20 minute period from 1 August 1330PST to 1350PST.
August 2018Heavy RainToms Place-Trained weather spotter 1 mile southwest of Toms Place reported 1.79 inches of rainfall in a 45 minute period from 1 August 1545PST to 1630PST.
August 2018Debris FlowToms Place-A trained weather spotter reported a debris flow at least 3 feet deep located along Aspen Springs Ranch Drive near Crooked Creek 2 miles west of Toms Place. The debris flow occurred shortly after 1.79 inches of rainfall fell within a 45 minute period from 1 August 1545PST to 1630PST. No damage/cleanup estimates were available.
August 2018Heavy RainToms Place-Mesonet station RCEC1 at Toms Place (elevation 7103 feet) reported 1.50 inches of rainfall in a 5-hour period from 1 August 1304PST to 1804PST.
July 2018Heavy RainToms Place-Trained weather spotter 1 mile southwest of Toms Place measured 0.98 inches of heavy rain from 12 July 1634PST to 13 July 0800PST.

Every storm recorded in Mono 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
Aspen Springs1.8 miles25
South Landing3.1 miles25
North Landing6.1 miles25
Mesa Camp6.8 miles27
Whitmore Hot Springs8.5 miles28
Benton Crossing10.5 miles28
Mammoth Lakes16.5 miles29
Old Mammoth16.6 miles29

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 Toms PlaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3992954The 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 1660015. 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.