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Tuttletown, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Twain Harte-Tuolumne City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95370. It lies near Devils Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sonora quadrangle. 787 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Tuttletown within Tuolumne County

Then and now

1893 to 1994

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 Tuttletown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Tuttletown, surveyed 1893

Population over time

2 figures

Tuttletown grew from 668 to 787 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
2010668
2020787+119 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

706 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 706 fires within 5 miles of Tuttletown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,539 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined279
Equipment and vehicle use141
Debris and open burning112
Misuse of fire by a minor50
Arson/incendiarism44
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Smoking21
Natural21
Recreation and ceremony13
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCentral California DistrictPARROTS
9 September 1999Natural10 acresCentral California DistrictLIGHTNING 28
9 September 1999Natural1.0 acresCentral California DistrictLIGHTING 24
9 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCOX
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitFERENCZY
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCAMPBELL
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitRAWHIDE
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictNATURAL BRIDGES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuolumne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 481 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 481 workings within 5 miles of Tuttletown: 169 unknowns, 150 past producers, 85 occurrences, 63 producers. 65 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Gold, Silver. 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
Carson CreekGold, Silver, ZincPast ProducerGold, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Golden StarGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Hard To FindGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Iron RockSilicaUnknown
Kahl RanchChromium, CopperOccurrence
Mackey MineChromium, IronPast Producer1860, 1908
Mackey RanchCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast Producer
PeiranoGold, StonePast ProducerGold, Soapstone
Quigg MineIron, ChromiumPast Producer1908
Reported OccurenceSlate, DimensionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tuolumne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuttletown in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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 2019FloodTuttletown-Caltrans reported that roadway was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Tuolumne 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
Heavenly Hills1.8 miles28
Melones Sunset Lake Estates2.0 miles28
Rawhide2.0 miles28
Peppermint Creek2.2 miles28
Gibbs Ranch2.9 miles28
Shaws Flat2.9 miles37
Rancho Sonora Estates3.0 miles28
Springfield3.2 miles37

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 TuttletownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3045017The 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 1660047. 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.