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Dairyville, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Red Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It stands on Craig Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tuscan Springs quadrangle.

Dairyville within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dairyville, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Dairyville, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 26 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

285 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Dairyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,788 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined103
Equipment and vehicle use88
Debris and open burning49
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitAG BURNING 1-25
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn Unit99 3
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitROWEN,C
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPRESERVE
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitSAN BENITO /TCF
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHURST
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitREADING
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitPASKENTA SERIES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dairyville: 2 producers. 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
Clement Avenue Gravel BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Red Bluff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dairyville in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 flood. 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
February 2025FloodDairyville-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at State Route 99 and Blackberry Avenue with a school bus stuck in the water.
December 2024FloodDairyville-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Highway 99 and Blackberry Avenue from heavy rain. Highway 99 was closed between Blackberry Avenue and Electric Avenue for about 1.5 hours.
December 2014FloodDairyville-Highway 99 was down to one lane due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Rawson4.0 miles26
Proberta4.2 miles26
Las Flores4.6 miles26
Kiska4.7 miles26
Gerber5.3 miles26
El Camino6.7 miles26
Red Bluff6.9 miles27
Tehama7.1 miles26

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 DairyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65043827The 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 1658367. 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.