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Demuth, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Adin-Lookout census division. It lies near Service Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Egg Lake quadrangle. It stands 4,255 feet above sea level.

Demuth within Modoc 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 Demuth, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Demuth, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Demuth between 1992 and 2018, burning about 118 acres in total. 34 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
Natural34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2007Natural1.0 acresLassen-Modoc Unit3----1
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLIGHTNING #88
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitEGG
18 September 2013Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitCURTIS 3-1
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLIGHTNING 32
13 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-27 RIM
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-26 TROUT
7 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-8 SCARFACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc 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
Scarface5.3 miles21
Lookout Junction5.7 miles21
White Horse7.2 miles22
Hollenbeck (historical)8.6 miles21
Day10.4 miles21
Lookout10.7 miles21
Old Hulbert Place13.3 miles21
Hackamore16.6 miles24

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 Q5256434The 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 1655963. 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.