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Voss, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. The Survey maps it on the Old Iron Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,499 feet above sea level.

Voss within El Dorado County

Then and now

1889 to 1976

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Voss, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of Voss, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 34 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Voss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,948 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony42
Natural41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresEldorado National ForestSNOW
7 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestMEISS
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresEldorado National ForestCAPPS
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresEldorado National ForestIRON
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National ForestOLD
28 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestCAPPS
27 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestMOUNTAIN
26 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestCAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Voss: 8 occurrences, 7 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
ArborGoldOccurrencePlacer
Marshall and EstesGoldOccurrencePlacer
Marshall and EstesGoldUnknown
Mauk and KendallGoldOccurrencePlacer
Mauk and KendallGoldUnknown
PlacerGoldUnknown
Robert LeeGoldOccurrenceGold
Robert Lee MineGoldUnknown
Spread EagleGoldOccurrence
Spread Eagle MineGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in El Dorado 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
Pilliken2.7 miles28
Meiss3.0 miles28
Bonetti3.7 miles34
Caldor4.3 miles30
Griminger4.5 miles34
Morrison4.9 miles28
Darlington5.0 miles34
Gilberts5.7 miles34

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.

Wikidata item Q7942034The 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 1660111. 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.