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Encinal, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Live Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95953. It stands on Live Oak Slough. The Survey maps it on the Sutter quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Encinal within Sutter County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Encinal, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Encinal, surveyed 1888

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

178 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Encinal between 2003 and 2020, burning about 273 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined120
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitHWY 70 / BOYER RD
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitRANGE
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sutter County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encinal in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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
January 2023FloodEncinal-California Highway Patrol reported multiple roads closed across Sutter County due to roadway flooding.

Every storm recorded in Sutter 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
Stafford (historical)0.7 miles23
Sanders0.9 miles23
Lomo1.1 miles23
Mendoza (historical)1.3 miles23
Sullivan1.6 miles23
Nuestro2.2 miles23
Sunset2.5 miles22
Berg3.0 miles23

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 EncinalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5375448The 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 1658503. 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.

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.