Camptonville, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Yuba Foothills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95922. It lies near Campbell Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Camptonville quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,825 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1888 to 2000The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1888 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresCamptonville grew from 158 to 158 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 158 | |
| 2020 | 158 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Camptonville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Camptonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Camptonville quadrangle1:24000
- 2000 USGS Camptonville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Camptonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,917 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 10 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 burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 30 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | WILLOW |
| 30 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | MARYSVILLE |
| 29 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | TOLLS |
| 28 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Tahoe National Forest | GARDEN |
| 24 September 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Tahoe National Forest | LONG |
| 23 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | SAGES |
| 22 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.5 acres | Tahoe National Forest | BRIDGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 122 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 122 workings within 5 miles of Camptonville: 60 past producers, 32 occurrences, 18 unknowns, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Arsenic, Molybdenum, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Gold, Silver | |
| Enterprise Qtz | Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite | |
| Fern Leaf | Molybdenum, Arsenic, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Fern Leaf | Molybdenum, Arsenic, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Galena Hill | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Grizzley Ridge | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Surface/Underground | |
| Ironrite | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Occurrence | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| West Delhi | Gold, Arsenic | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Fern Leaf | Arsenic, Molybdenum, Gold | Occurrence | Vein |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galena Hill (historical) | 1.5 miles | 27 | |
| Weeds Point | 1.8 miles | 27 | |
| Youngs Hill (historical) | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Garden Valley (historical) | 3.2 miles | 27 | |
| Oak Valley | 3.3 miles | 27 | |
| Foster Bar (historical) | 4.4 miles | 29 | |
| Bullards Bar (historical) | 5.2 miles | 29 | |
| Greenville | 6.9 miles | 29 |
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 Camptonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3406203 | 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 1658208. 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.












