Delevan, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Central Colusa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95955. The Survey maps it on the Maxwell quadrangle. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Delevan within Colusa County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delevan, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Delevan, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1906 USGS Maxwell quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1917 USGS Delevan quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Maxwell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Maxwell quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Lakeport quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Delevan between 1992 and 2018, burning about 746 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
9 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Delevan National Wildlife Refuge	TRACT 27
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge	DELMED2
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Delevan National Wildlife Refuge	DELEVAN ROAD ASSIST
23 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge	I-5 COUNTY LINE
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge	I-5 RENNICK THREAT
20 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge	SAC T19C2
20 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	125 acres	Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge	POOL12 WF
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge	INCINERATO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colusa 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
Maxwell	5.4 miles	15
Mills Orchards	6.9 miles	18
Sites	8.4 miles	18
Stegeman	8.6 miles	16
Cortena	9.3 miles	17
Lurline (historical)	9.8 miles	17
Princeton	10.2 miles	15
Colusa Rancheria	11.3 miles	16

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 Delevan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5253654	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 1658402. 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.