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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.

Cassel within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Cassel, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Cassel, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Cassel 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.

YearPeople Change
2010207
20202070 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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.

Fires near this place

190 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined61
Natural53
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Firearms and explosives use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSTATION
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSHU PIT #2
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestJEWEL
6 September 2007Natural12 acresLassen National ForestCOBLE
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLassen National ForestJOHNSON
4 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitROCKY #2
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitCASSEL
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestDIGGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Six Mile Cinder Pit and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brush Mountain QuarryPumiceProducer
Fall River Quarry BPumiceProducer
Hat Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014HailCassel-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Burney.

Every storm recorded in Shasta 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Doyles Corner3.0 miles28
Four Corners3.4 miles28
Johnson Park4.2 miles28
Hat Creek6.4 miles28
Burney6.5 miles28
Gomez8.2 miles26
Fall River Mills8.3 miles21
Glenburn10.3 miles21

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 CasselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458703The 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.