Adin, California
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Adin-Lookout census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96006. It stands on Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adin quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,203 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Adin
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Adin Supply Companylisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresAdin fell from 272 to 205 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 272 | |
| 2020 | 205 | -67 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Adin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Adin quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Adin quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Adin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 657 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen-Modoc Unit | LIGHTNING #39 |
| 28 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northern California District | WILL |
| 28 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lassen-Modoc Unit | ROUND FIRE |
| 21 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Northern California District | SURPRISE |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Modoc National Forest | NOT NAMED |
| 16 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen-Modoc Unit | 3-15 ROUND |
| 11 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | 3-15 ROUND |
| 30 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Northern California District | ADIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harper | 1.6 miles | 22 | |
| Dibble Place | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Lookout | 11.2 miles | 21 | |
| Lookout Junction | 16.0 miles | 21 | |
| Canby | 17.7 miles | 22 | |
| Old Hulbert Place | 17.8 miles | 21 | |
| Demuth | 19.7 miles | 21 | |
| Fletcher (historical) | 20.1 miles | 22 |
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 Adin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q357293 | The 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 256119. 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.









