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.
Then and now
1920 to 1991The 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.


Compare 1920 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresComptche 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 159 | |
| 2020 | 167 | +8 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1920 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Comptche quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1991 USGS Comptche quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 1992Regional 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 use | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | COMPTCHE UKIAH RD COM 12 |
| 28 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | FLYNN 2 |
| 24 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | STUOGHTON |
| 30 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | APPIAN WY NAVA |
| 21 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | SURPRISE |
| 4 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | 5-3 |
| 4 July 2008 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | LEONARD LAKE1 LIGHTNING |
| 31 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | CREEK 4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Melbourne | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Dunlap (historical) | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Whiskey Springs | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Navarro | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Old Bailey Place | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Cape Horn | 9.2 miles | 17 | |
| Whitesboro | 9.8 miles | 13 |
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 Comptche | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5157120 | 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 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.






