BlockEllis, California
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96062. It lies near Townsend Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Clough Gulch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1890 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1890 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 25 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.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1901 USGS Redding quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Millville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Clough Gulch quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
110 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Ellis (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 811 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | GARBE |
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | HWY 44 / FISHER LN |
| 7 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | WHITMORE |
| 7 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | FERN |
| 6 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | 44 #3 |
| 6 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | LAVA |
| 5 September 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | BEAR |
| 4 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | CREEK 6 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1682476. 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.