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Etna, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Etna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96027. It lies near Hughes Hill. The Survey maps it on the Etna quadrangle. 678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,936 feet above sea level.

Etna within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 115 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Etna, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Etna, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Etna grew from 361 to 678 between 1880 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
1880361
2010737
2020678-59 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 33 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Etna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 49 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
Natural49
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2000Natural10 acresKlamath National ForestWHISKEY
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestWHISKEY
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTING#65
30 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSiskiyou Unitnot named
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPATTERSON
24 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitHOFFMAN
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitSAWYERS
12 September 1995Smokingunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPARTRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Etna: 12 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
J ConnersTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
McdanialsStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Peter SmithClayPast Producer
SterlingGold, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Kappler ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Kappler ProspectManganeseUnknown1918
Nappler ProspectManganesePast Producer
BandorGoldOccurrence
Blue LeadGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etna in 2 storm reports in 1997: 1 hail, 1 flash 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
July 1997Flash FloodEtna-1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HRS RESULTED IN MINOR ROAD FLOODING
July 1997HailEtna-no account filed

Every storm 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
Deacon Lee Place2.5 miles33
Cheeseville4.4 miles29
Greenview6.5 miles29
Mugginsville8.6 miles29
Oro Fino8.6 miles29
Fort Jones10.8 miles30
Callahan11.3 miles33
Foster14.4 miles33

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 EtnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q542603The 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 277509. 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.

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.