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Burney, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96013. The Survey maps it on the Burney quadrangle. 3,000 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,123 feet above sea level.

Burney within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burney, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Burney, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Burney fell from 3,154 to 3,000 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
20103,154
20203,000-154 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Burney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,074 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined134
Natural40
Arson/incendiarism37
Smoking22
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony13
Other causes2
Fireworks1
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 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSTATION
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitSHASTA
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitROFF WY BURNEY
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitWASHBURN
8 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitPUBLISHER
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRABBIT
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitJACKRABBIT FLAT BURNEY 2
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitJACK RABBIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burney in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 1999: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 wildfire. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 1997Flash FloodBurney1 killedno account filed
February 1999FloodBurney-no account filed
August 1999WildfireBurney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shasta 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
Johnson Park3.0 miles28
Four Corners4.8 miles28
Doyles Corner5.3 miles28
Cassel6.5 miles28
Hat Creek8.6 miles28
Whittington Place12.0 miles29
Cayton12.5 miles26
Gomez13.1 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 BurneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2587867The 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 277481. 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.

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.