Dibble Place, California

22 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 in ZIP code area 96006. The Survey maps it on the Adin quadrangle. It stands 4,396 feet above sea level.

Dibble Place 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 Dibble Place, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of Dibble Place, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

1886 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Adin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Adin quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Adin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Dibble Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 887 acres in total. 36 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
Natural	36
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	LIGHTNING #39
28 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern California District	WILL
28 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	ROUND FIRE
21 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Northern California District	SURPRISE
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	NOT NAMED
16 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Lassen-Modoc Unit	3-15 ROUND
12 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	AMBROSE
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	3-15 ROUND

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harper	2.5 miles	22
Adin	2.6 miles	22
Lookout	13.8 miles	21
Canby	17.6 miles	22
Vestil	18.2 miles	22
Christensen	18.5 miles	23
Lookout Junction	18.5 miles	21
McGarva	19.0 miles	23

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 Q14681838

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 1658418. 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.