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East Gridley, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gridley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95948. The Survey maps it on the Gridley quadrangle. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

East Gridley within Butte County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Gridley, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of East Gridley, surveyed 1888

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.

Fires near this place

702 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 702 fires within 5 miles of East Gridley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,374 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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/undetermined269
Debris and open burning170
Equipment and vehicle use157
Arson/incendiarism57
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Smoking17
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresButte UnitCHATFIELD
9 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresButte UnitPAMMA,G
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreButte UnitGRIDLEY FARM LABOR CAMP G
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresButte UnitBIGGS
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButte UnitBONITO
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitHWY99
7 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreButte UnitNAUMES
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreButte UnitHAMILTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of East Gridley: 7 producers, 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kaiser, Henry J. Co. Betchel-Kaiser Rock CoSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
Woods Pit & MillStoneProducer
Butte County Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Cooper Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gold Hill Dredging CompanyGoldUnknown
Gridley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kaiser Henry J CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mathews RoySand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Mcfarland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Gridley in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
May 2019FloodEast Gridley-CHP reported road flooding at Larkin Rd.

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Gridley Colony Number Two (historical)0.9 miles22
Peachton1.2 miles22
Gridley1.7 miles22
Gridley Colony Number One (historical)2.0 miles22
Fagan2.2 miles22
Richland (historical)2.5 miles22
Robinsons Corner2.9 miles21
Chandon (historical)3.4 miles22

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 East GridleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5328498The 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 222907. 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.