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Crest, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Madeline Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96123. The Survey maps it on the Snowstorm Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,469 feet above sea level.

Crest within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crest, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Crest, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Crest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,455 acres in total. 46 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural46
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictTWIN
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictFLEMING
14 September 2011Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictHORSE
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictTOWER
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictR3 STORM
8 August 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictR1 SNOW
7 August 2019Natural11 acresNorthern California DistrictR 2 RAVEN
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictHORSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crest: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ravendale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crest in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Heavy RainCrest-RAWS, 5 miles south-southeast of Ravendale (elevation 5450 feet) reported 0.87 inches of rainfall in a 2-hour period from 25 July 1559PST to 1759PST.
May 2018Heavy RainCrest-Ravendale RAWS, 5 miles south-southeast of Ravendale (elevation 5450 feet) reported 0.62 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 16 May 0500PST to 17 May 0500PST.

Every storm recorded in Lassen 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
Horse Lake3.9 miles19
Ravendale5.1 miles20
Shumway6.7 miles19
Termo10.8 miles20
Karlo12.4 miles19
Moran13.8 miles21
The Crossing17.3 miles21
Brockman17.9 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q5184532The 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 252658. 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.