Cantrall Mill, 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 stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Soup Creek quadrangle. It stands 6,033 feet above sea level.

Cantrall Mill 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 Cantrall Mill, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of Cantrall Mill, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1886 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Soup Creek quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Soup Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Cantrall Mill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,898 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 5 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
Natural	82
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
9 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	JIM
8 September 2017	Natural	1.5 acres	Modoc National Forest	CREEK
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	BOWMAN
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	BEAR
3 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	SOUP
28 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	SHIELDS
25 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	NORTH FORK
2 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brooks Mill	2.9 miles	23
Campbell	6.0 miles	23
Kauffman	9.5 miles	24
Ramsey	9.9 miles	23
McArthur	11.2 miles	23
Likely	11.2 miles	22
Eagleville	11.2 miles	24
Williams	11.4 miles	23

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 Q5034056

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 1658210. 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.