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.
Then and now
1888 to 1993The 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 sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1888 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1911 USGS Sutter quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Sutter quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
178 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 120 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | not named |
| 3 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | HWY 70 / BOYER RD |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 26 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | not named |
| 26 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | RANGE |
| 24 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Flood | Encinal | - | California Highway Patrol reported multiple roads closed across Sutter County due to roadway flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford (historical) | 0.7 miles | 23 | |
| Sanders | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Lomo | 1.1 miles | 23 | |
| Mendoza (historical) | 1.3 miles | 23 | |
| Sullivan | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Nuestro | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Sunset | 2.5 miles | 22 | |
| Berg | 3.0 miles | 23 |
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 Encinal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5375448 | 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 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.









