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Doyle, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Honey Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96109. It stands on Willow Ranch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Doyle quadrangle. 536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,275 feet above sea level.

Doyle within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Doyle, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Doyle, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Doyle fell from 678 to 536 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
2010678
2020536-142 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Doyle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91,418 acres in total. 90 started naturally. 6 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
Natural90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Other causes5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCCD BALLOO
9 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson City District OfficeDOYLE 4
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictPASSING
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestROBINSON
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCCD CAN
5 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitDOY 2
5 September 1994Other causesunder an acreNorthern California DistrictDOY#3
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictR1 SAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Doyle: 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Basic Rock Products IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Borroww PitStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Cowboy Joe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dewey Anderson RanchTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Dewey Anderson RanchTungstenOccurrence
Dewey Anderson Ranch Waltman MineTungstenOccurrence
Herlong PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doyle in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2025Heavy RainDoyle-A trained spotter located 1.0 mi W of Doyle, CA, reported a 24 hour rainfall/liquid total of 1.67 inches.
February 2024Heavy RainDoyle-A trained spotter located 1.0 mi W of Doyle, CA, reported a rainfall storm total of 1.56 inches.
October 2021Flash FloodDoyle-California Highway Patrol reported 3.5 feet of water over the road on the north end of Constantia Road making the roadway impassable.
December 2021Heavy RainDoyle-Trained spotter reported 1.38 of heavy rain before changeover to snow the following day.
January 2019Heavy RainDoyle-Trained weather spotter 1 mile west of Doyle reported 2.43 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 16 January 0700PST to 17 January 0700PST.
January 2017FloodDoyle-CALTRANS reported water from Long Valley Creek flowing over Highway 395. The highway was shut down in both directions starting around 1930PST on the 8th. In addition, County Road A26 (near Herlong) was closed due to weakened bridge supports. The end time is approximate and based on the end of heavier rain on the 9th. Damage from this specific event are unknown, although a preliminary damage assessment (CALTRANS) for flood repairs to Highway 395 in January and February totaled $1.8M.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindDoyle-Peak wind measured between 1245 and 1345PST, with the time of the gust estimated from radar.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindDoyle-Wind gust at Doyle RAWS. Wind gust between 1711 and 1811PST...exact time estimated from radar.
July 2004Heavy RainDoyle-A total of 0.75 inches of rain fell in 45 minutes.
August 2003Heavy RainDoyle-Over six tenths of an inch of rain fell in Doyle in 45 minutes from a thunderstorm.
November 2002Heavy RainDoyle-Spotter reported overnight rainfall total of 1.62 inches.
July 2002Flash FloodDoyle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lassen 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
Omira4.4 miles27
Constantia6.4 miles27
Herlong8.1 miles21
Patton Village8.3 miles21
Calneva10.0 miles20
Herlong Junction10.1 miles23
Scotts12.5 miles26
Stacy14.6 miles20

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 DoyleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458377The 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 222577. 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.