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Clipper Mills, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Feather Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95930. It stands on Grizzly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clipper Mills quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,550 feet above sea level.

Clipper Mills within Butte County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clipper Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Clipper Mills, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Clipper Mills grew from 142 to 160 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
2010142
2020160+18 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Clipper Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined37
Natural29
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresPlumas National ForestJACK
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestDIGGER
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestSAWDUST
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFORBESTOWN
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOODLEAF
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestRAVINE
28 September 2007Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestGARDEN
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestLOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 96 workings within 5 miles of Clipper Mills: 48 occurrences, 20 past producers, 16 unknowns, 8 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Chromium, Iron. 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
Eagle DelleGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Eagle DelleCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Gold Bank Consolidated QuartzGold, Silver, CopperProducer
Horse ShoeGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast ProducerVein
HorseshoeGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Unnamed LocationLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Arbucco ProspectsClayOccurrence
Bean ProspectManganese, AsbestosOccurrence
Butte Co Pine and Hardwood CoAsbestosUnknown
Clipper MillsNickelOccurrence1955

Every working recorded in Butte 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
Oroleve1.2 miles29
Forbestown5.9 miles27
Lumpkin6.0 miles29
Rogerville6.4 miles29
Camp Eighteen6.5 miles28
Old Forbestown6.5 miles27
Feather Falls6.7 miles27
Wagners (historical)8.9 miles28

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 Clipper MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5134380The 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 1655908. 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.