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East Quincy, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Quincy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95971. It lies near Thompson Valley. The Survey maps it on the Quincy quadrangle. 2,463 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,491 feet above sea level.

East Quincy within Plumas County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 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 Quincy, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Quincy, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

East Quincy fell from 2,489 to 2,463 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
20102,489
20202,463-26 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of East Quincy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,084 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 19 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
Natural74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Other causes7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestBRANCH
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestMASSACK
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestROCK
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestWILLIAMS
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestEMPIRE
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestFARN
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestTRESTLE
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestEAST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of East Quincy: 14 unknowns, 12 past producers, 11 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Manganese. 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
Feather River Travertine Marble QryMarble, DimensionProducer
Pacific Portland Cement CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed LocationManganeseOccurrence
MeldickGold, SilverPast Producer
Missing LinkGold, SilverPast Producer
Twin FirsGold, SilverPast Producer
Feather River BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Plumas RockSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spanish Creek DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plumas County

Storms near this place

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Quincy in 12 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 12 heavy rain. 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
December 2015Heavy RainEast Quincy$1,000There were 1.5 inches of heavy rain in Quincy. Gusty winds damaged small limbs.
January 2019Heavy RainEast Quincy-A spotter reported a 12 hour rainfall total of 0.82.
January 2019Heavy RainEast Quincy-There was a 12 hour total of 2.1 of rain. Slush from earlier snow was blocking street drains with ponding water observed.
February 2019Heavy RainEast Quincy-Heavy rain, 3.48 inches in 12 hours, 5.12 inches in 24 hours.
March 2018Heavy RainEast Quincy-The 24 hour total rainfall was 1.60. Some wet snow mixed in at times.
December 2018Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 1.03 inches of rain over 12 hours in East Quincy.
January 2017Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 1.50 of rain measured over 5 hours 1 E of Quincy.
February 2017Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 2.30 of rain measured over 24 hours, 6.16 over 72 hours.
October 2016Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 1.83 inches of rain measured, 12 hour total.
October 2016Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 2.51 inches of rain measured, 6 hour total.
October 2016Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 1.53 inches measured, 12 hour total.
December 2015Heavy RainEast Quincy-There were 1.66 inches of rain reported over 12 hours. The observer was located in Quincy.

Every storm recorded in Plumas 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
Cedar Mill1.5 miles29
Quincy Junction2.0 miles29
Silongkoyo (historical)2.5 miles29
Quincy2.6 miles29
Massack3.2 miles27
English Bar (historical)6.2 miles27
Keddie6.5 miles24
Spring Garden6.5 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 East QuincyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2103573The 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 1658463. 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.