Capetown, California

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 1989

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.

• 1921 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Capetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Cape Mendocino quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Capetown between 1993 and 2018, burning about 231 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Centerville (historical)
• Riverside Park

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Capetown: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Mineral Pigments, Iron, Iron, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capetown in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Humboldt County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658215. 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.