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Delphos, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Central Colusa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95987. The Survey maps it on the Williams quadrangle. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Delphos within Colusa County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delphos, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Delphos, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Delphos between 2003 and 2013, burning about 23 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBLACK
1 September 2011Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
29 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
2 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
6 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
5 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
16 June 2009Debris and open burning10 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colusa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delphos: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium. 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
Stella ProspectChromiumOccurrenceChromite

Every working recorded in Colusa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphos in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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 2019FloodDelphos$20,000Caltrans reported that multiple vehicles were stuck in water on I-5.
December 2025FloodDelphos-California Highway Patrol reported rocks in both lanes of State Route 20 from heavy rain.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cortena2.2 miles17
Williams2.7 miles17
Lurline (historical)4.5 miles17
Maxwell6.0 miles15
Mills Orchards8.2 miles18
Colusa8.7 miles19
Colusa Rancheria8.7 miles16
Genevra9.3 miles16

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 Q5254468The 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 1658408. 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.