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.
Then and now
1886 to 1988The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresDoyle 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 678 | |
| 2020 | 536 | -142 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1886 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Doyle quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Doyle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
190 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 90 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | CCD BALLOO |
| 9 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson City District Office | DOYLE 4 |
| 8 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | PASSING |
| 7 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | ROBINSON |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northern California District | CCD CAN |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Lassen-Modoc Unit | DOY 2 |
| 5 September 1994 | Other causes | under an acre | Northern California District | DOY#3 |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | R1 SAGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Rock Products Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Borroww Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Cowboy Joe Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dewey Anderson Ranch | Tungsten | Occurrence | Scheelite | |
| Dewey Anderson Ranch | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Dewey Anderson Ranch Waltman Mine | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Herlong Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | A trained spotter located 1.0 mi W of Doyle, CA, reported a 24 hour rainfall/liquid total of 1.67 inches. |
| February 2024 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | A trained spotter located 1.0 mi W of Doyle, CA, reported a rainfall storm total of 1.56 inches. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Doyle | - | California Highway Patrol reported 3.5 feet of water over the road on the north end of Constantia Road making the roadway impassable. |
| December 2021 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | Trained spotter reported 1.38 of heavy rain before changeover to snow the following day. |
| January 2019 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | 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 2017 | Flood | Doyle | - | 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doyle | - | Peak wind measured between 1245 and 1345PST, with the time of the gust estimated from radar. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doyle | - | Wind gust at Doyle RAWS. Wind gust between 1711 and 1811PST...exact time estimated from radar. |
| July 2004 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | A total of 0.75 inches of rain fell in 45 minutes. |
| August 2003 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | Over six tenths of an inch of rain fell in Doyle in 45 minutes from a thunderstorm. |
| November 2002 | Heavy Rain | Doyle | - | Spotter reported overnight rainfall total of 1.62 inches. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Doyle | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omira | 4.4 miles | 27 | |
| Constantia | 6.4 miles | 27 | |
| Herlong | 8.1 miles | 21 | |
| Patton Village | 8.3 miles | 21 | |
| Calneva | 10.0 miles | 20 | |
| Herlong Junction | 10.1 miles | 23 | |
| Scotts | 12.5 miles | 26 | |
| Stacy | 14.6 miles | 20 |
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 Doyle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458377 | 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 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.










