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Kingsbury Village, 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.

Kingsbury Village within Douglas County

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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Kingsbury Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined65
Natural55
Recreation and ceremony50
Arson/incendiarism28
Smoking23
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use5
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 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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKAHLE 1

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 Village: 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
Kingsbury0.9 miles34
Summit Village1.1 miles34
Kingsbury Meadows1.6 miles34
Tahoe Village2.5 miles34
Hobart (historical)2.5 miles34
Round Hill2.6 miles34
Genoa2.7 miles28
Stateline3.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122563743The 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 847755. 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.