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El Camino, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Red Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96035. The Survey maps it on the Gerber quadrangle.

El Camino within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of El Camino, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of El Camino, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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

721 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 721 fires within 5 miles of El Camino between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,270 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined281
Equipment and vehicle use217
Debris and open burning116
Smoking43
Arson/incendiarism34
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitWARD,D
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeTORRES, L.
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMAGNOLIA
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGRANT
7 September 2014Smokingunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitWORTHINGTON
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitFLORES
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTRUCKEE
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitGUTIERREZ,P

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of El Camino: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Clement Avenue Gravel BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Doyle Pit #17Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fox's Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Piedmont Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Richfield Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas Creek ExtractionSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas I-5 Gravel OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama 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
Gerber1.5 miles26
Kiska2.0 miles26
Las Flores2.2 miles26
Tehama2.7 miles26
Proberta2.8 miles26
Los Molinos4.0 miles26
Richfield4.6 miles17
Rawson5.4 miles26

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 El CaminoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888559The 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 1658480. 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.