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Edgewood, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Weed census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96094. It stands on Beaughton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weed quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,956 feet above sea level.

Edgewood within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edgewood, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Edgewood, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

On record in Edgewood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Edgewood grew from 67 to 72 between 2000 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
200067
201043-24 (-36%)
202072+29 (+67%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,013 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined73
Debris and open burning35
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSiskiyou UnitWEED
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresSiskiyou UnitPARKS
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSiskiyou UnitROSEBURG
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 3413
29 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBOBCAT
28 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitGALLOP
27 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitFIVE
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMEADOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Edgewood: 6 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Asbestos, Gold, 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
Mills Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dennis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
KiernanGoldOccurrence
Unidentified WorkingsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationsGoldUnknown
North View ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
Shasta ViewAsbestosUnknown
Unnamed LocationAsbestosUnknown
LloydChromiumUnknown
Meadow ViewChromiumProducer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou 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
Metcalf (historical)3.2 miles31
Weed3.4 miles31
Carrick3.7 miles32
Igerna4.8 miles31
Hammond Ranch5.5 miles30
Black Butte5.9 miles31
Lake Shastina6.0 miles30
Hotlum6.3 miles32

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 EdgewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672345The 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 1658474. 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.