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.
Then and now
1890 to 1998The 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.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresDouglas 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 713 | |
| 2020 | 868 | +155 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1913 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1982 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
156 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | RIVER |
| 9 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | LIGHTNING #24 |
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Northern California District | BROWNS |
| 7 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | WILSON |
| 7 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | DIRT |
| 30 September 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | SHU LITTLE |
| 29 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | CREEK |
| 29 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern California District | TUCKER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 70 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browns Mountain Soapstone | Talc-Soapstone | Unknown | ||
| Democrat Group | Gold, Lead, Arsenic | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Fillibuster Group | Gold, Platinum, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Limekiln Gulch | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Lowden | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Lowden | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Arbuckle Bros | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Douglas City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Reading Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
3 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Heavy Rain | Douglas City | $3,500 | Boulder the size of a vehicle on the road 5 miles southwest of Douglas City, CA.|LAT. 40.60N, LONG. -123.01W. |
| March 2024 | Heavy Rain | Douglas City | $3,500 | Landslide 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 2020 | Hail | Douglas City | - | Estimated quarter size hail and thunderstorm wind gusts from 30 to 40 mph observed at the Douglas City store. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weaverville | 5.4 miles | 26 | |
| Bucktail | 6.2 miles | 27 | |
| Junction City | 8.0 miles | 21 | |
| Lewiston | 8.2 miles | 27 | |
| Deadwood | 12.1 miles | 26 | |
| Helena | 12.8 miles | 20 | |
| Keno (historical) | 14.2 miles | 27 | |
| Pinewood Cove | 14.3 miles | 27 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5301331 | 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 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.








