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White Hall, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the South El Dorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95726. It lies in White Hall Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle. It stands 3,383 feet above sea level.

White Hall 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 White Hall, surveyed 1976
Topographic sheet of White Hall, surveyed 1889

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of White Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27,088 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony30
Natural24
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresEldorado National ForestMORMON 2
9 September 1994Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitPLUM
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitPLUM
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEldorado National Forestnot named
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEldorado National Forestnot named
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEldorado National Forestnot named
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEldorado National Forestnot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEldorado National ForestDITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of White Hall: 5 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldUnknown
Plum Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold
Unnamed Hydraulic MineGoldUnknown
UnknownStoneOccurrence
UnknownStoneOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStoneUnknown
Unnamed QuarryStoneUnknown
Unnamed QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Hall in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 debris flow. 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
June 2017Debris FlowWhite Hall-Heavy rain on already saturated ground brought down debris onto the westbound lane of Highway 50 at Alder Creek, a rural location between White Hall and Kyburz. The westbound lane of Highway 50 was blocked for about 2 days before the debris was cleared by Caltrans.

Every storm 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
Riverton2.4 miles32
McConnel Place2.7 miles32
Darlington3.2 miles34
Short Place3.7 miles32
Griminger3.8 miles34
Bryants5.4 miles34
Jones Place5.5 miles30
Pacific5.5 miles31

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 White HallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7994749The 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 1660165. 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.