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California Pines, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Alturas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96101. It lies near Rye Grass Swale. The Survey maps it on the Rattlesnake Butte quadrangle. 473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,406 feet above sea level.

California Pines within Modoc County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of California Pines, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of California Pines, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

California Pines fell from 520 to 473 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
2010520
2020473-47 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of California Pines between 1992 and 2018, burning about 237 acres in total. 29 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
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism4
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
29 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCOOKE
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCANBY 2
25 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitWALTERS
22 September 1999Natural28 acresLassen-Modoc UnitLGT #97
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitPORTUGUSE (4-5)
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitKITCHEN
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitALAMO (4-3)
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitHAT (4-1)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc 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 California Pines: 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 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Modoc 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
Fletcher (historical)4.7 miles22
Juniper7.4 miles24
Bormister8.4 miles23
Paola (historical)8.6 miles24
Lakeview Junction8.8 miles24
Alturas9.0 miles24
McArthur9.3 miles23
Daphnedale Park9.9 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 California PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5020757The 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 1947700. 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.