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Wild Bill Place, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Lucerne-Clearlake Oaks census division. It stands on Wild Bill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bartlett Mountain quadrangle. It stands 2,310 feet above sea level.

Wild Bill Place within Lake County

Then and now

1938 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wild Bill Place, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Wild Bill Place, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Wild Bill Place between 1992 and 2015, burning about 323 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
20 September 1994Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMendocino National ForestJESSE
18 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPANORAMIC
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestSYLAR
14 September 1994Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestNUMBER2
13 September 1994Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestWATER DOG
13 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMendocino National ForestCORRAL
12 September 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMendocino National ForestKNOBCONE
19 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDEWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wild Bill Place: 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Asbestos, Chromium, Arsenic, Geothermal. 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
Crabtree HotspringsGeothermalUnknown
UnknownArsenicOccurrence
Smaker PropertyChromiumProducerChromite
Smaker PropertyChromiumOccurrence
UnknownAsbestosOccurrence
Unnamed LocationAsbestosOccurrence
Unnamed LocationAsbestosUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Newman Springs4.2 miles16
Rose Place4.9 miles22
Bartlett Springs5.2 miles16
Pole Garden7.7 miles16
Parramore Springs7.7 miles17
Upper Lake8.2 miles21
Nice8.2 miles21
Vann9.3 miles17

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 Q8000533The 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 1660178. 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.