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Cutten, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95503. It lies near Henderson Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Eureka quadrangle. 3,223 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Cutten within Humboldt County

Then and now

1922 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cutten, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Cutten, surveyed 1922

Population over time

2 figures

Cutten grew from 3,108 to 3,223 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
20103,108
20203,223+115 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Cutten between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Misuse of fire by a minor205 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitGILL
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitELK
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionWATER
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCUTTEN
5 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitBEECHWOOD
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMCKAY
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitHUNSINGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cutten: 4 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fred Carlson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haw QuarryStoneOccurrence
UnknownStoneOccurrence
Freshwater SloughClayOccurrence
Freshwater SloughClayProspect
LoofbourrowClayOccurrence
Thompson Brick CoClayPast Producer
Unnamed LocationClayProspectSedimentary
Unnamed LocationClayProspect

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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
Rosewood1.2 miles19
Myrtletown1.5 miles19
Pine Hill1.7 miles19
Bayview2.2 miles19
Ridgewoods Heights2.4 miles16
Eureka2.5 miles19
Pine Hills2.6 miles16
Bucksport2.6 miles19

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 CuttenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2402910The 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 1655945. 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.