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.
Then and now
1886 to 2001The 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.


Compare 1886 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresEtna 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 361 | |
| 2010 | 737 | |
| 2020 | 678 | -59 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 33 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.
- 1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1931 USGS Etna quadrangle1:96000
- 1934 USGS Etna quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Etna quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Etna quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Etna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
109 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2000 | Natural | 10 acres | Klamath National Forest | WHISKEY |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Klamath National Forest | WHISKEY |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | LIGHTING#65 |
| 30 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | PATTERSON |
| 24 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | HOFFMAN |
| 21 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | SAWYERS |
| 12 September 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | PARTRIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J Conners | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | ||
| Mcdanials | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Peter Smith | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Sterling | Gold, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Kappler Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Kappler Prospect | Manganese | Unknown | 1918 | |
| Nappler Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Bandor | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Blue Lead | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deacon Lee Place | 2.5 miles | 33 | |
| Cheeseville | 4.4 miles | 29 | |
| Greenview | 6.5 miles | 29 | |
| Mugginsville | 8.6 miles | 29 | |
| Oro Fino | 8.6 miles | 29 | |
| Fort Jones | 10.8 miles | 30 | |
| Callahan | 11.3 miles | 33 | |
| Foster | 14.4 miles | 33 |
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 Etna | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q542603 | 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 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.











