Berry Creek, California
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Feather Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95916. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berry Creek quadrangle. 1,637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,995 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1888 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1888 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresBerry Creek grew from 1,424 to 1,637 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,424 | |
| 2020 | 1,637 | +213 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Bidwell Bar quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1948 USGS Big Bend Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Las Plumas quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Las Plumas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Berry Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Chico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Berry Creek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
245 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Berry Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,942 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 17 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 | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 50 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
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 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Butte Unit | BLOOMER HILL |
| 6 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.8 acres | Butte Unit | MEADOW |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,333 acres | Butte Unit | POE |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | CANYON |
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | SURCEASE |
| 3 September 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Butte Unit | PINE |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Butte Unit | OROVILLE QUINCY HWY / FOR |
| 29 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Butte Unit | FOREMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 50 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Berry Creek: 23 past producers, 11 occurrences, 10 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bend | Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Big Bend | Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Bloomer Hill | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Jacks Ranch | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Pinkston Mine | Gold, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Copper | Past Producer | Barite, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Surcease | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Surcease Bunker Hill and Treasure Hill | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper | Producer | ||
| Surcease Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony, Iron | Past Producer | Antimony, Bornite, Bournonite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Gold, Limonite, Marcasite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Yankee Hill | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Evening Star Claim | Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | Gold, Sphalerite |
Storms near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berry Creek in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Heavy Rain | Berry Creek | - | There were 11.59 of rain measured. The duration of the heavy rain event was 72 hours. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moseley (historical) | 1.4 miles | 28 | |
| Brush (historical) | 3.5 miles | 28 | |
| Brush Creek | 4.6 miles | 29 | |
| Big Bend | 4.8 miles | 28 | |
| Blinzing (historical) | 4.8 miles | 28 | |
| Las Plumas (historical) | 4.8 miles | 28 | |
| Pipers (historical) | 4.9 miles | 28 | |
| Bloomer (historical) | 4.9 miles | 29 |
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 Berry Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458761 | 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 1658040. 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.












