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Yorkville, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hopland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95425. It stands on Elkhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yorkville quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Yorkville within Mendocino County

Then and now

1938 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yorkville, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Yorkville, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Yorkville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning8
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2003Natural8.0 acresMendocino UnitELKHORN LAWSON
3 September 2003Natural3.0 acresMendocino UnitDRY CREEK
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresMendocino UnitSHEEP
13 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitWARD#2
13 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMendocino UnitWARD #1
12 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino UnitELKHORN
9 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitYORK
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitHWY 128 MP 042.00 YORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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 Yorkville: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Mercury, Graphite. 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
John L McnabbGraphiteOccurrence
Occident ProspectMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
CallizoManganeseOccurrence
Callizo ProspectManganeseProspect1942
Native CopperCopperUnknown
OgleCopperOccurrenceVein
OlgeCopperOccurrence

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
The Oaks0.8 miles16
Ingram2.3 miles16
Old Ornbaun Hot Springs5.2 miles15
Rankin (historical)5.5 miles18
Duncan Springs6.0 miles18
Crittendon (historical)7.0 miles16
Hopland7.3 miles18
Dawes7.7 miles18

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 YorkvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8055811The 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 1660217. 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.