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Bangor, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Palermo census division. It lies near Katskill Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bangor quadrangle. 695 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Bangor within Butte County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bangor, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bangor, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Bangor grew from 646 to 695 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
2010646
2020695+49 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

406 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 406 fires within 5 miles of Bangor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,022 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 47 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 use117
Debris and open burning57
Arson/incendiarism47
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,311 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitWILLOW
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitHONCUT #4
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitHONCUT #3
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitWOLF
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined496 acresNorthern California DistrictSWEDES
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresButte UnitGIPSON
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitDELANO
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitGRUBBS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Bangor: 18 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. 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
OsgoodIronProspect
StenersonGold, SilverPast Producer
LundClayProducerSedimentary
LundClayPast Producer
Bangor QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hammett Talkings RockStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swain Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blue Lead MineGoldOccurrence
Blue Lead MineGoldUnknown
Dutch RavineGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Butte 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
Sunnyslope2.0 miles27
Swedes Flat (historical)4.3 miles26
Wyandotte5.8 miles25
Hurleton7.6 miles25
Palermo7.7 miles25
Honcut8.0 miles21
Vista Robles8.1 miles25
Robinson Mills8.6 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.

Wikipedia article on BangorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458774The 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 218644. 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.