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Buntingville, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Susanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96114. It stands on Parker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Standish quadrangle. It stands 4,091 feet above sea level.

Buntingville within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buntingville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Buntingville, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Buntingville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,528 acres in total. 26 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
Debris and open burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.2 acresLassen-Modoc UnitSADDLEBACK
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLassen-Modoc Unit1-1 BALD
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresLassen-Modoc UnitHICKS
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitCHRISTIE
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLGT #74
4 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTING 81
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLGT 83
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitGRADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buntingville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buntingville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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 2023Debris FlowBuntingville-Lassen County Emergency Manager reported mudslide located 7.0 mi WNW of Honey Lake, CA, blocking southbound traffic along US-395 near Hicks Road within the Dixie Burn Scar.
July 2014HailBuntingville-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
Janesville2.2 miles22
Edgemont2.5 miles21
Edgemont (historical)2.8 miles21
Standish6.4 miles21
Leavitt7.9 miles23
Litchfield8.5 miles21
Johnstonville8.7 miles23
Milford9.9 miles22

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 BuntingvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4997942The 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 1659703. 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.