Constantia, California

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 1994

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.

• 1890 USGS Sierraville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Sierraville quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Sierraville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1950 USGS Chilcoot quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Constantia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Portola quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Constantia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Constantia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,196 acres in total. 100 started naturally. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Omira
• Chats (historical)
• Plumas
• Reno Junction
• Hallelujah Junction
• Scotts

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Constantia: 8 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Constantia in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 debris flow, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Lassen County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2723871. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.