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Bayliss, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Willows census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95943. The Survey maps it on the Glenn quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Bayliss within Glenn County

Then and now

1906 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bayliss, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Bayliss, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Bayliss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 381 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeORD
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.2 acresTehama-Glenn UnitSEMSA AIR 2 TGU_GLENN
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitREACH 5 TGU_GLENN
25 September 1992Debris and open burning15 acresButte UnitLLANO SECO
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitREACH 5 TGU_GLENN
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife Refuge44-45
6 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeORD LEVEE
5 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeBEND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glenn County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayliss in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023HailBayliss-The public reported hail, measured at 0.88 inches, associated with a thunderstorm.
March 2014Tornado (EF1)Bayliss-Based on eye witness interviews, believe this tornado originated around 5:30pm as well and tracked nearly due east along CR41. It removed the roof of a barn near Road R, damaged an outbuilding made of sheet metal, turned over a carport and broke a utility pole (8 inches in diameter) of a local residence just west of Road S. An outcrop of cottonwood trees on a dairy farm at CR 41 and TT was badly damaged. Some of the tree limbs landed on structures to house calves, but no livestock were injured. Also, down road TT, a stop sign was ripped off its metal pole and thrown 50 yards in the field just east.
March 2014Tornado (EF1)Bayliss-Based on eye witness interviews we believe this was the first tornado to touch down around 5:30 pm, and then tracked southeast for about 5-10 minutes. A pheasant pen and an outbuilding both lost their roofs. The outbuildings roof was made of sheet metal and some individual pieces were thrown between 800-1000 feet east/southeast of the outbuildings location. Some of the heavier pieces (150 lbs) were thrown 350 feet from the original outbuilding.
March 2009HailBayliss-The Glenn County Sheriff Office reported nickel-size hail in Fruto.

Every storm recorded in Glenn 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
Jacinto2.1 miles15
Ordbend3.9 miles15
Glenn4.5 miles15
Rotavele7.4 miles15
Monroeville (historical)7.5 miles26
Bluegum7.8 miles16
Lyman (historical)7.9 miles16
Artois8.3 miles16

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 BaylissAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4874588The 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 218762. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.