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Comptche, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95427. It stands on Marsh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Comptche quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Comptche within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Comptche, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Comptche, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Comptche grew from 159 to 167 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
2010159
2020167+8 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Comptche between 1992 and 2018, burning about 244 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMendocino UnitCOMPTCHE UKIAH RD COM 12
28 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitFLYNN 2
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMendocino UnitSTUOGHTON
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitAPPIAN WY NAVA
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitSURPRISE
4 July 2013Naturalunder an acreMendocino Unit5-3
4 July 2008Natural1.0 acresMendocino UnitLEONARD LAKE1 LIGHTNING
31 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitCREEK 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Cameron2.0 miles14
Melbourne3.4 miles14
Dunlap (historical)6.3 miles14
Whiskey Springs7.9 miles14
Navarro8.2 miles15
Old Bailey Place8.8 miles12
Cape Horn9.2 miles17
Whitesboro9.8 miles13

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 ComptcheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5157120The 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 255911. 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.