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Bieber, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Big Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96009. The Survey maps it on the Bieber quadrangle. 266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,124 feet above sea level.

Bieber within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bieber, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Bieber, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Bieber fell from 312 to 266 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
2010312
2020266-46 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Bieber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 1 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
Natural23
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-9 PIRCEN
6 September 2017Natural1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-4 BULL
3 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use146 acresLassen-Modoc UnitPUMKIN
27 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresLassen-Modoc Unitnot named
23 September 2008Natural1.0 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestBALD
2 September 2013Natural2.5 acresLassen-Modoc Unit3-1
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLTG 86
13 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc Unit3-10 RICKETS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bieber: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cinder PitStoneOccurrence
Cinder PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bieber in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2003: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003HailBieber-A storm spotter 10 miles east of Bieber in northern Lassen County reported 3/4 inch diameter hail from a thunderstorm.
May 2002HailBieber-no account filed
May 2002Heavy RainBieber-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lassen 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
Pumpkin Center2.1 miles21
Nubieber2.7 miles21
Hot Springs5.9 miles21
Leonard6.1 miles21
Dixie12.3 miles26
Scotty Place14.3 miles22
Avila Place15.6 miles22
Little Valley15.8 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 BieberAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q542120The 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 253152. 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.