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Delleker, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Portola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96122. It stands on West Branch Humbug Creek. The Survey maps it on the Portola quadrangle. 802 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,885 feet above sea level.

Delleker within Plumas County

Then and now

1890 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delleker, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Delleker, surveyed 1890

Population over time

2 figures

Delleker grew from 705 to 802 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
2010705
2020802+97 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Delleker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 5 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
Natural73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning41
Recreation and ceremony22
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDELLEKER
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestC
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestHORSE
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestPEN
30 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestROCKY
3 September 1998Smokingunder an acrePlumas National ForestGRIZZLY
29 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forest23
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acrePlumas National ForestROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Delleker: 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
ValentineCopperOccurrenceUnknown
Rocky Point Borrow SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
AntelopeGoldOccurrence
LauraGoldOccurrence
Ohio MineGoldUnknown
Quartz Mine 93GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Plumas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delleker in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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
July 2015HailDelleker-Accumulating nickel-sized hail was reported near the Lake Davis Dam.

Every storm recorded in Plumas 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
Iron Horse1.4 miles24
Portola1.5 miles24
Mabie1.6 miles29
Delaney (historical)1.7 miles29
Kerby (historical)4.2 miles24
Lake Davis4.5 miles24
Mohawk Vista4.7 miles29
Five Points5.8 miles29

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 DellekerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3132875The 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 1658405. 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.