Ferndale, California

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1987

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 9 records

• Alford-Nielson Houselisted 1986
• Andreasen, F. W.-John Rossen Houselisted 1989
• A. Berding Houselisted 1983
• Ferndale Main Street Historic Districtlisted 1994
• Ferndale Public Librarylisted 1990
• Grizzly Bluff Schoollisted 1979
• Rectory, Catholic Church of the Assumptionlisted 1982
• Shaw Houselisted 1984
• Fern Cottage Historic Districtlisted 1988

Ferndale grew from 1,371 to 1,398 between 2010 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.

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.

• 1916 USGS Cape Fortunas quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Ferndale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Port Kenyon
• Arlynda Corners
• Centerville (historical)
• Table Bluff Rancheria
• Waddington
• Beatrice

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ferndale: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277513. 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.