Andersonia, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Laytonville-Leggett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95589. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Piercy quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Andersonia within Mendocino County

Then and now

1950 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Andersonia, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Andersonia, surveyed 1950

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1950 USGS Piercy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Piercy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Covelo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Andersonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
8 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	HALE
5 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	43 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	NIELSON
4 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	STATE
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	271
25 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	BARNUM #2
19 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	GRINDER
10 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	REED
7 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	BENBOW 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Andersonia: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cooks Valley Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unnamed Location	Gold	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Piercy	1.0 miles	16
Reynolds (historical)	2.7 miles	16
Kenny	6.2 miles	17
Lane Redwood Flat (historical)	6.3 miles	16
Pratt Place	6.4 miles	13
Riverdale	7.0 miles	13
Wheeler	8.4 miles	17
Leggett	9.2 miles	14

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 Andersonia	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4754244	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 1657931. 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.