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Twin Rocks, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Laytonville-Leggett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95454. It stands on Twin Rocks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tan Oak Park quadrangle. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Twin Rocks within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Twin Rocks, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Twin Rocks, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Twin Rocks between 1993 and 2018, burning about 13,047 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning9
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMendocino UnitMAD CREEK #2
8 September 1996Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMendocino UnitMAD CREEK #1
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitTAN OAK PARK LEGG
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 92
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 59
21 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMendocino UnitBLUE
20 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionREGISTER
19 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMendocino UnitIRON 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Twin Rocks: 7 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Clay, Chromium. 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
LloydClayUnknown
LloydChromiumOccurrenceChromite
MendocinoClayOccurrence
UnknownChromiumOccurrenceChromite
UnknownChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Leap ProspectsManganeseProspect1918
LeepManganeseProspectPsilomelane
Shell RockManganeseOccurrence
Shell Rock DepositsManganeseProspect1918

Every working recorded in Mendocino 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
Empire (historical)1.5 miles14
Tan Oak Park2.1 miles14
Bowman Place2.3 miles14
Cummings3.6 miles14
Dunlap Place7.4 miles15
Spyrock7.4 miles15
South Leggett7.7 miles14
River Garden (historical)7.8 miles15

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 Twin RocksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7858288The 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 1724141. 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.