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Deacon Lee Place, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Etna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96027. The Survey maps it on the Etna quadrangle.

Deacon Lee Place within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 115 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Deacon Lee Place, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Deacon Lee Place, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 33 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Deacon Lee Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 3 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
Natural49
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
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 2000Natural10 acresKlamath National ForestWHISKEY
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestWHISKEY
4 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKlamath National ForestBABBS
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTING#65
30 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSiskiyou Unitnot named
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPATTERSON
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitSAWYERS
12 September 1995Smokingunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPARTRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Deacon Lee Place: 12 past producers, 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Chromium, 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
J ConnersTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
New PineryGold, SilverPast Producer
J. WalkerClayPast Producer
Kidder Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kidder Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
McdanialsStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Meridian Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Peter SmithClayPast Producer
BallChromiumPast Producer
GrantChromiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou 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
Etna2.5 miles33
Cheeseville3.2 miles29
Greenview5.0 miles29
Mugginsville6.5 miles29
Oro Fino6.9 miles29
Fort Jones9.9 miles30
Callahan13.6 miles33
Hooperville (historical)14.6 miles30

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 Q122561267The 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 1655955. 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.