Carpenter Place, California

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Covelo census division. It stands on Pinto Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plaskett Ridge quadrangle. It stands 3,419 feet above sea level.

Carpenter Place within Mendocino County

Then and now

1952 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carpenter Place, surveyed 1996

Topographic sheet of Carpenter Place, surveyed 1952

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1952 USGS Hull Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Plaskett Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Willows quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Plaskett Ridge quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 16 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
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
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
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	PLASKETT
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	WELLS CABIN
23 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	MCCOY
19 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	DOAN
18 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	PLASKETT
7 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	O'NEIL
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	ROCKY
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino National Forest	COLD

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
O'Neil Place	3.0 miles	12
Bredehoft Place	3.4 miles	14
Hays Place	4.1 miles	12
Hardy Place	4.7 miles	14
McClure Place	6.9 miles	16
Sherburns (historical)	10.3 miles	16
Cubbler Place	11.7 miles	16
Marks Place	12.3 miles	16

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 Q5045733

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 1658226. 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.