Chalk Bank Landing, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Butte Valley census division. It lies near Sardine Flat. The Survey maps it on the Lower Klamath Lake quadrangle.

Chalk Bank Landing within Siskiyou 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 Chalk Bank Landing, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of Chalk Bank Landing, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1886 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1892 USGS Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Mt Dome quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mt. Dome quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Lower Klamath Lake quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Lower Klamath Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Chalk Bank Landing between 1992 and 2017, burning about 10,721 acres in total. 7 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
27 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge	LKR HEADQUARTERS
2 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Lava Beds National Monument	JOEL
16 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	POWERLINE
7 August 2017	Natural	250 acres	Modoc National Forest	CHALK
7 August 2013	Natural	13 acres	Modoc National Forest	MDF DH OKLAHOMA
4 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	9,700 acres	Modoc National Forest	REFUGE
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Siskiyou Unit	HOLSHAUSER
31 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	SHEEPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Laird Landing	5.1 miles	26
Fleener Place	5.2 miles	24
Ainsworth Corner	7.4 miles	24
Canby Cross	8.3 miles	24
Hatfield	8.8 miles	24
Tulelake	9.3 miles	23
Dorris	15.1 miles	24
Somerset	18.9 miles	24

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 Q122542436

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 258180. 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.