Burlington, California

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95553. It stands on Robinson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weott quadrangle.

Burlington within Humboldt County

Then and now

1921 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burlington, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Burlington, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1921 USGS Dyerville quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Weott quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Weott quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1969 USGS Weott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Garberville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Burlington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,154 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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	61
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Debris and open burning	18
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	DYERVILLE
6 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	LOG
30 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	FOUNDERS
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	MYERS
3 September 2003	Natural	11,036 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	CANOE
3 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	WEBER CREEK
3 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	REDCREST 3
25 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	MYERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burlington: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Crimson	Copper	Occurrence
	Eel River Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dyerville (historical)	3.4 miles	12
Myers Flat	3.6 miles	11
McCann	4.0 miles	11
Fruitland	4.5 miles	11
Whitlow	6.0 miles	11
Englewood	6.3 miles	12
Bull Creek	6.5 miles	13
Redcrest	6.7 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q4999183

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 1658175. 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.