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Douglas City, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Weaverville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96024. It stands on Weaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weaverville quadrangle. 868 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,152 feet above sea level.

Douglas City within Trinity County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Douglas City, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Douglas City, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Douglas City grew from 713 to 868 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
2010713
2020868+155 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Douglas City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 677 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use29
Natural22
Debris and open burning16
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes2

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRIVER
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING #24
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use35 acresNorthern California DistrictBROWNS
7 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitWILSON
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitDIRT
30 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSHU LITTLE
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitCREEK
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictTUCKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Douglas City: 31 past producers, 30 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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
Browns Mountain SoapstoneTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
Democrat GroupGold, Lead, ArsenicPast ProducerGold
Fillibuster GroupGold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer
Limekiln GulchLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnnamedClayOccurrence
LowdenMolybdenumOccurrenceUnknown
LowdenMolybdenumOccurrenceVein
Arbuckle BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Douglas City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reading BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas City in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 2 heavy rain, 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
March 2024Heavy RainDouglas City$3,500Boulder the size of a vehicle on the road 5 miles southwest of Douglas City, CA.|LAT. 40.60N, LONG. -123.01W.
March 2024Heavy RainDouglas City$3,500Landslide blocking the eastbound lane with mud and rocks in both lanes, 1 mile east of Douglas City, CA. LAT. 40.65N, LONG. -122.94W.
July 2020HailDouglas City-Estimated quarter size hail and thunderstorm wind gusts from 30 to 40 mph observed at the Douglas City store.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Weaverville5.4 miles26
Bucktail6.2 miles27
Junction City8.0 miles21
Lewiston8.2 miles27
Deadwood12.1 miles26
Helena12.8 miles20
Keno (historical)14.2 miles27
Pinewood Cove14.3 miles27

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 Douglas CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5301331The 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 222556. 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.