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Crescent Mills, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95934. It stands on Hough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crescent Mills quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,527 feet above sea level.

Crescent Mills within Plumas County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crescent Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Crescent Mills, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Crescent Mills grew from 196 to 206 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
2010196
2020206+10 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 998 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 7 were 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
Natural97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning34
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePlumas National ForestHOT
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF 3
7 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acrePlumas National ForestCHINA
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF 2
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestFALLS
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDAWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined79 acresPlumas National ForestMILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Crescent Mills: 32 occurrences, 16 past producers, 11 producers, 11 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Copper, 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
Crystal LakeSilica, Manganese, IronPast Producer1918
Feather River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Houghs PeakIronOccurrence
Lakeview Valley ViSilica, ManganesePast Producer
Standart MineGold, SilverProducer
Unnamed LocationTitanium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Valley ViewChromiumOccurrence
Wolf Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shoofly LimestoneLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationLimestone, DimensionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Moccasin1.9 miles24
Round Valley (historical)3.3 miles24
Greenville3.7 miles23
Indian Falls3.9 miles24
Taylorsville4.0 miles24
Tasikoyo (historical)4.0 miles24
Paxton6.0 miles24
Keddie6.2 miles24

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 Crescent MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2105197The 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 1655937. 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.