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Bend, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Red Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bend quadrangle. 603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Bend within Tehama 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 Bend, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Bend, surveyed 1890

Population over time

2 figures

Bend fell from 619 to 603 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
2010619
2020603-16 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 26 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 Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,993 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined171
Equipment and vehicle use165
Debris and open burning45
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking25
Natural17
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Firearms and explosives use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2020Smoking1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitBAKER RD WRB
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitBRENT
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitJELLYS2
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitFREEWAY 10
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern California DistrictWOODLAND
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMISSION
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresNorthern California DistrictBEND
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitJELLYS IC / TAC 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bend: 6 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Geothermal, Stone. 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
EvansGold, SilverPast Producer
Tuscan SpringGeothermalUnknown
Unidentified QuarryStoneOccurrence
Midland Co.GoldPast Producer
Al' Bon's CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chase PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dibble Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Heitman Dibble Creek BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Latten Pit and MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
T. H. R. Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bend in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flood. 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
December 2024FloodBend-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding from heavy rain on State Route 36 near Mile Marker 49.4.

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Ninemile (historical)4.3 miles21
Blunt4.5 miles21
Red Bluff5.5 miles27
Hooker7.0 miles21
Dales8.3 miles23
Rawson9.5 miles26
Dairyville9.8 miles26
Proberta12.1 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.

Wikipedia article on BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4886973The 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 1658034. 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.

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.