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Volcano, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sutter Creek-Plymouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95689. It stands on South Branch Sutter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Grove quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,070 feet above sea level.

Volcano within Amador County

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Volcano, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Volcano, surveyed 1889

On record in Volcano

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Volcano fell from 115 to 104 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
2010115
2020104-11 (-10%)

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

416 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Volcano between 1992 and 2020, burning about 465 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 28 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
Debris and open burning128
Missing data/not specified/undetermined121
Equipment and vehicle use73
Arson/incendiarism28
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking8
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
6 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitEZELLA CT PIONEER
6 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral California DistrictCHARLESTON
6 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitDIAMOND
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPIONEER
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictKATHY
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitREDBERRY
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCentral California DistrictPATEL INC
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictSHAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 285 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 285 workings within 5 miles of Volcano: 125 occurrences, 67 past producers, 67 unknowns, 18 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Silver, Copper. 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
AjaxSilver, Gold, LeadProducer
AjaxGold, Lead, SilverUnknown
Big Gulch ClaimGold, ManganeseProspect1940
Big PineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerGold
Black WonderGold, Copper, Iron, LeadPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Clinton ConsolidatedGold, Silver, Iron, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Gold, Silver
Dane and MitchellFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
DefenderGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Elmer Evans DepositStone, DimensionOccurrence
Jackass GulchAbrasiveUnknown

Every working recorded in Amador 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
Pine Grove2.5 miles28
Pioneer3.2 miles28
Pine Acres3.3 miles28
Irishtown (historical)4.4 miles28
Clinton5.0 miles28
Barton5.4 miles28
Buckhorn5.5 miles28
Milligan District (historical)7.5 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 VolcanoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3139412The 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 237127. 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.