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Butte City, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Willows census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95920. It lies near Hanson Island. The Survey maps it on the Butte City quadrangle. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Butte City within Glenn County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Butte City, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Butte City, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Butte City between 1993 and 2019, burning about 133 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeSUL NORTE BRIDGE
6 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeLLANO 2
3 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugePACKER
3 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeP-TREE
25 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeDRUMHELLER
24 August 2005Debris and open burning6.2 acresSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeDRUMHELLER
21 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugePACKER ISLAND #1
19 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeSUL NORTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glenn County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Butte City: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, PGE, Silver, 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
JennieGold, SilverPast Producer
Putah CreekGold, PGEUnknown
Golden Gate Consolidated Qtz. MineGoldPast Producer
Good EnoughGoldPast Producer
Lucky Star PlacerGoldUnknown
Olson # 1 & 2GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Glenn County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte City in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flood. 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
November 2024FloodButte City-California Highway Patrol reported closure of Highway 162 north at County Road Z due to flooding from heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Glenn 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
Codora1.8 miles15
Afton3.3 miles23
Glenn4.1 miles15
Jacinto8.1 miles15
Bayliss8.7 miles15
Logandale10.9 miles14
Norman11.4 miles14
Ordbend11.4 miles15

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 Butte CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5002791The 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 1658183. 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.