Dan Ryan Place, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Madeline Plains census division. It lies near Hunsinger Draw. The Survey maps it on the Ambrose Valley quadrangle. It stands 4,836 feet above sea level.

Dan Ryan Place within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dan Ryan Place, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of Dan Ryan Place, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

1886 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Adin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Ambrose Valley quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Ambrose Valley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Dan Ryan Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 80 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
Natural	80
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	MOLL
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	LIGHTNING #39
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	LGT 92
30 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	768
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	768
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	RAIL
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	769
22 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	BATH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scotty Place	3.5 miles	22
Avila Place	7.8 miles	22
Hayden Hill	11.3 miles	21
Leonard	11.4 miles	21
Hot Springs	11.7 miles	21
Pumpkin Center	15.6 miles	21
Bieber	17.4 miles	21
Sage Hen	18.2 miles	20

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 Q5214324

The 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 1658372. 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.