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Cecilville, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Etna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96031. It stands on Crawford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cecilville quadrangle.

Cecilville within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1948 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cecilville, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Cecilville, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Cecilville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 45 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
Natural45
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1998Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestSTAGE
7 September 2017Natural13 acresKlamath National ForestFOURTH
4 September 1992Naturalunder an acreKlamath National Forestnot named
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreKlamath National Forestnot named
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreKlamath National Forestnot named
14 September 2011Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestHENRYS
13 September 2017Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestBLAINE
13 September 2011Natural9.0 acresKlamath National ForestPOINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Cecilville: 24 unknowns, 23 past producers, 12 occurrences, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Manganese. 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
Grover Ladd ClaimMercuryOccurrence
High Spot No. 1QuartzProspect
Reported OccurrencesStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
King Solomon Mines CoGold, ManganesePast ProducerGold
Reported OccurrenceManganeseUnknown
Black Crow and Black HawkChromiumPast Producer
Black HawkChromiumProspect
Blue DoeChromiumPast Producer
Dry GulchChromiumPast Producer
Mary LouChromiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Siskiyou 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
Summerville4.8 miles18
Black Bear7.2 miles18
Gilta (historical)10.5 miles14
Sawyers Bar10.8 miles15
Bestville11.0 miles15
Foster12.4 miles33
Callahan21.4 miles33
Somes Bar24.1 miles14

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 CecilvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056503The 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 1655877. 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.