Coffee Creek, California
33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Weaverville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96091. It lies near Oneeyed Flat. The Survey maps it on the Carrville quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,068 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1998The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresCoffee Creek fell from 217 to 152 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 217 | |
| 2020 | 152 | -65 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 33 printed sheetsMatched 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 Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1931 USGS Etna quadrangle1:96000
- 1934 USGS Etna quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Bonanza King quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Bonanza King quadrangle1:62500
- 1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Carrville quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Carrville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Coffee Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,127 acres in total. 60 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 60 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | HATCHET |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | WAGNER |
| 29 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | not named |
| 28 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 192 acres | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | LITTLE |
| 27 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | GOLDFIELD |
| 23 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | not named |
| 19 September 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | not named |
| 18 September 1994 | Natural | 250 acres | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | COPPER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 107 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 107 workings within 5 miles of Coffee Creek: 42 past producers, 33 unknowns, 24 occurrences, 5 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Creek | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Dewey | Gold, Copper, Iron | Past Producer | 1899 | |
| Headlight | Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Lead | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| New Blue Jay Mining Co. | Gold, Copper, Manganese | Past Producer | 1886 | |
| Poeth Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Strode | Gold, Manganese | Past Producer | 1888 | |
| Compton | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Queen | Copper, Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Copper Queen Group | Copper, Gold, Mercury | Past Producer | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Gold | |
| Headlight Consolidated | Chromium | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrville | 1.7 miles | 33 | |
| Stringtown (historical) | 3.3 miles | 33 | |
| Coffee | 3.8 miles | 35 | |
| Trinity Center | 7.3 miles | 29 | |
| Bragdon (historical) | 13.7 miles | 29 | |
| Ridgeville | 16.3 miles | 27 | |
| Estrellita | 16.4 miles | 27 | |
| Minersville (historical) | 16.9 miles | 27 |
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 Coffee Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5140909 | 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 1665333. 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.












