Black Butte, California

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1998

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.

• 1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
• 1935 USGS Dunsmuir quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Weed quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Hotlum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Hotlum quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Black Butte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 544 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 24 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hammond Ranch
• Deetz
• Igerna
• Weed
• Carrick
• Hotlum

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Black Butte: 5 unknowns, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Asbestos, 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.

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Butte in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2003: 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Siskiyou County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658067. 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.