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Favinger Place, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It stands on Big Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Acorn Hollow quadrangle.

Favinger Place within Tehama County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Favinger Place, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Favinger Place, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Favinger Place between 1993 and 2014, burning about 1,164 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2003Natural223 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPFENDLER, P.
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMARIA #3
26 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitROGERS
22 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTEHAMA
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitLEWIS-W
25 July 2007Naturalunder an acreWhiskeytown National Recreation AreaCRYSTAL 2
21 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTYLER
19 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPORTER, R.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Favinger Place: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone. 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
Carmichael Rock QuarryStoneProducer
Reported OccurrencesGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Tehama 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
Tenmile (historical)2.3 miles28
Buena Vista5.9 miles31
Roberts Place6.4 miles31
Los Molinos6.7 miles26
Ensign (historical)6.8 miles18
Copeland7.7 miles18
Tehama7.8 miles26
Thompson Place8.0 miles28

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.

Wikidata item Q122594256The 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 1658528. 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.