Cassel, California
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96016. It lies near Hat Creek Valley. The Survey maps it on the Cassel quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,176 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresCassel grew from 207 to 207 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 | 207 | |
| 2020 | 207 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 28 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.
- 1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1935 USGS Burney quadrangle1:125000
- 1935 USGS Burney quadrangle1:96000
- 1939 USGS Burney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Burney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Burney quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Cassel quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Cassel quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
190 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Cassel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,796 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 61 |
| Natural | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | STATION |
| 9 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | SHU PIT #2 |
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen National Forest | JEWEL |
| 6 September 2007 | Natural | 12 acres | Lassen National Forest | COBLE |
| 6 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Lassen National Forest | JOHNSON |
| 4 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | ROCKY #2 |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | CASSEL |
| 3 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen National Forest | DIGGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cassel: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Six Mile Cinder Pit and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Brush Mountain Quarry | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Fall River Quarry B | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Hat Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Sand Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cassel in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Hail | Cassel | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Burney. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doyles Corner | 3.0 miles | 28 | |
| Four Corners | 3.4 miles | 28 | |
| Johnson Park | 4.2 miles | 28 | |
| Hat Creek | 6.4 miles | 28 | |
| Burney | 6.5 miles | 28 | |
| Gomez | 8.2 miles | 26 | |
| Fall River Mills | 8.3 miles | 21 | |
| Glenburn | 10.3 miles | 21 |
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 Cassel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458703 | 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 258048. 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.














