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.
Then and now
1891 to 1994The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,489 | |
| 2020 | 2,463 | -26 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 29 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.
- 1891 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Downieville quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1950 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Portola quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
263 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 74 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 65 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Other causes | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
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 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | BRANCH |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | MASSACK |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | ROCK |
| 3 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | WILLIAMS |
| 3 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | EMPIRE |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | FARN |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | TRESTLE |
| 3 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | EAST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 43 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feather River Travertine Marble Qry | Marble, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Pacific Portland Cement Co | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Meldick | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Missing Link | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Twin Firs | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Feather River Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Plumas Rock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spanish Creek Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | $1,000 | There were 1.5 inches of heavy rain in Quincy. Gusty winds damaged small limbs. |
| January 2019 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | A spotter reported a 12 hour rainfall total of 0.82. |
| January 2019 | Heavy Rain | East 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 2019 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | Heavy rain, 3.48 inches in 12 hours, 5.12 inches in 24 hours. |
| March 2018 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | The 24 hour total rainfall was 1.60. Some wet snow mixed in at times. |
| December 2018 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 1.03 inches of rain over 12 hours in East Quincy. |
| January 2017 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 1.50 of rain measured over 5 hours 1 E of Quincy. |
| February 2017 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 2.30 of rain measured over 24 hours, 6.16 over 72 hours. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 1.83 inches of rain measured, 12 hour total. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 2.51 inches of rain measured, 6 hour total. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 1.53 inches measured, 12 hour total. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | East Quincy | - | There were 1.66 inches of rain reported over 12 hours. The observer was located in Quincy. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Mill | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| Quincy Junction | 2.0 miles | 29 | |
| Silongkoyo (historical) | 2.5 miles | 29 | |
| Quincy | 2.6 miles | 29 | |
| Massack | 3.2 miles | 27 | |
| English Bar (historical) | 6.2 miles | 27 | |
| Keddie | 6.5 miles | 24 | |
| Spring Garden | 6.5 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 East Quincy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2103573 | 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 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.











