Whiskey Springs, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95437. It stands on Parlin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mathison Peak quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Whiskey Springs within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whiskey Springs, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Whiskey Springs, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1920 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Comptche quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1991 USGS Mathison Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Whiskey Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	WOODLANDS CDF MENDO
6 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING103
4 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 99
4 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING90
4 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	GREEN
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	WHISKEY
26 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	JSF #3
22 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	EGG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grove	5.1 miles	14
South Fork	5.4 miles	14
Redwood Lodge	5.5 miles	14
Melbourne	5.6 miles	14
Dunlap (historical)	6.1 miles	14
Heeser Addition	6.6 miles	18
Alpine	6.7 miles	14
Glenblair	7.2 miles	14

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 Whiskey Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7993892	The 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 1660161. 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.