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Cedarville, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Surprise Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96104. The Survey maps it on the Cedarville quadrangle. 437 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,652 feet above sea level.

Cedarville within Modoc County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedarville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Cedarville, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Cedarville fell from 514 to 437 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
2010514
2020437-77 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Cedarville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 386 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National Forest535
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National ForestSTOUGH
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreModoc National ForestMDF WM CEDAR
7 September 1995Smokingunder an acreNorthern California DistrictBONNER
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestCOOK
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictIVERSON
30 September 2005Smoking110 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictKAISER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cedarville: 6 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Calcium, Gold. 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
CaptainGoldOccurrence
Elzie BagleyCalciumProducerSurface
Elzie BagleyCalciumPast Producer
Granger Claim GroupGoldOccurrence
Cedarville Hot SpringsMercuryProspect
Deep Creek ProspectMercuryOccurrence1935
Silvertown GroupMercuryOccurrence
Silvertown GroupMercuryUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Modoc County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCedarville$20,000The Modoc County Record reported that strong winds came down from Cedar Pass and snapped a 30-inch and a 16-inch diameter tree near Cedarville. A building on one ranch had a 20 foot by 34 foot piece of roof blown off. Large farm equipment (swather) was pushed and numerous 110 pound bales of hay were rolled or knocked over in the winds.|The highest measured gust was 55 mph at the Surprise Valley RAWS.
April 2018Heavy RainCedarville-Mesonet station CEDC, 3 miles north of Cedarville (elevation 4600 feet) reported 0.79 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 0700PST to 7 April 0700PST.

Every storm recorded in Modoc 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
Lake City8.2 miles22
Surprise Station14.3 miles22
Eagleville15.0 miles24
Cantrall Mill16.6 miles23
Davis Creek17.6 miles22
Brooks Mill18.7 miles23
Menlo Baths18.8 miles24
Paola (historical)19.5 miles24

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 CedarvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2943788The 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 220805. 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.