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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.

Coffee Creek within Trinity County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Coffee Creek, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Coffee Creek, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Coffee 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.

YearPeople Change
2010217
2020152-65 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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

84 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural60
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestHATCHET
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestWAGNER
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National Forestnot named
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined192 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestLITTLE
27 September 1998Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestGOLDFIELD
23 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity National Forestnot named
19 September 1994Natural1.0 acresShasta-Trinity National Forestnot named
18 September 1994Natural250 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestCOPPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 107 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper CreekGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
DeweyGold, Copper, IronPast Producer1899
HeadlightGold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Manganese, LeadPast Producer1900
New Blue Jay Mining Co.Gold, Copper, ManganesePast Producer1886
Poeth MineGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer1900
StrodeGold, ManganesePast Producer1888
ComptonChromiumPast Producer
Copper QueenCopper, MercuryOccurrence
Copper Queen GroupCopper, Gold, MercuryPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Gold
Headlight ConsolidatedChromiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trinity 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
Carrville1.7 miles33
Stringtown (historical)3.3 miles33
Coffee3.8 miles35
Trinity Center7.3 miles29
Bragdon (historical)13.7 miles29
Ridgeville16.3 miles27
Estrellita16.4 miles27
Minersville (historical)16.9 miles27

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5140909The 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.