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Balls Ferry Fishing Resort, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Redding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96007. It stands on Ash Creek. The Survey maps it on the Balls Ferry quadrangle.

Balls Ferry Fishing Resort within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Balls Ferry Fishing Resort, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Balls Ferry Fishing Resort, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 23 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

476 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 476 fires within 5 miles of Balls Ferry Fishing Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,968 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 53 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/undetermined152
Equipment and vehicle use125
Arson/incendiarism53
Debris and open burning49
Smoking38
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Firearms and explosives use11
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks2

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 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitHAWES RD / KIMBERLY RD
9 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitCOTTONWOOD #2
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitPANORAMA
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitRHONDA #2
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitLONG BRANCH DR COTTONWOO
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorthern California DistrictTGU JELLYS
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitVALLEY
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitRIO TAC3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta 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 Balls Ferry Fishing Resort: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cottonwood Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shasta 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
Cottonwood Estates4.7 miles22
Cottonwood5.1 miles22
Anderson5.8 miles22
El Rio Estates7.1 miles22
Millville9.1 miles26
Pacheco9.8 miles31
Palo Cedro10.3 miles26
Henryford (historical)11.1 miles26

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 Q122592988The 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 2508639. 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.