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Kingsbury, Nevada

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Zephyr Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89449. It lies near Folsom Peak. The Survey maps it on the South Lake Tahoe quadrangle. 2,313 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,208 feet above sea level.

Kingsbury within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Kingsbury grew from 2,152 to 2,313 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,152
20202,313+161 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

268 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Kingsbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 931 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined72
Recreation and ceremony54
Natural48
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking29
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning2

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 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitHOLLY
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitPARTY
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKAHLE
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitEDNA 1
7 September 2007Other causesunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitSADDLE
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitLIBRARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Kingsbury: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Sulfur, Copper. 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
Genoa ClaimsGold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Granite GroupUranium, CopperOccurrenceChrysocolla
Hunch and Lucky Strike ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite
Kingbury Queen ProspectQuartz, UraniumProspect
Section 21 ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Valleys Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Section 10 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, SulfurOccurrence
Section 15 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, SulfurOccurrence
Granite Group Nos 1-5UraniumProspect
Hunch and Lucky Strike ClaimsUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Kingsbury Meadows0.7 miles34
Kingsbury Village0.9 miles34
Summit Village1.1 miles34
Tahoe Village1.6 miles34
Hobart (historical)1.8 miles34
Stateline2.0 miles34
Round Hill2.0 miles34
Edgewood2.2 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.

Wikipedia article on KingsburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2392180The 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 847765. 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.