Cape Horn, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95432. It lies near Bear Pen Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Elk quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Cape Horn within Mendocino County

Then and now

1943 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cape Horn, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Cape Horn, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1943 USGS Navarro quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Saddle Point quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Elk quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Navarro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cape Horn between 1993 and 2018, burning about 4,837 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	YOUNG
3 September 2003	Natural	7.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 14
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	PHILO-GREENWOOD
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	BIRD
3 September 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	MINI MOUSE
3 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 81
26 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	KINNEY
22 September 2003	Natural	250 acres	Mendocino Unit	MOUSE II

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Elk	4.4 miles	17
Navarro	5.1 miles	15
Reilly Heights	6.6 miles	15
Philbrick Mill	8.3 miles	12
Old Bailey Place	8.4 miles	12
Whitesboro	8.8 miles	13
Comptche	9.2 miles	14
Albion	9.3 miles	13

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 Q5034866

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 1653003. 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.