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Fields Landing, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95537. It sits by Red Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Fields Landing quadrangle. 287 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Fields Landing within Humboldt County

Then and now

1944 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fields Landing, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Fields Landing, surveyed 1944

Population over time

2 figures

Fields Landing grew from 276 to 287 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.

YearPeople Change
2010276
2020287+11 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Fields Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 127 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined50
Recreation and ceremony19
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMARSH
9 September 1994Debris and open burning5.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitBLUFF
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitGILL
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitELK
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCUTTEN
5 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitBEECHWOOD
28 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitHUM20
28 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSHIP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fields Landing: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fred Carlson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownStoneOccurrence
LoofbourrowClayOccurrence
Table BluffClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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
King Salmon1.0 miles16
Humboldt Hill1.3 miles16
Spruce Point1.6 miles16
Elk River2.3 miles16
Southport Landing2.7 miles16
West Humboldt (historical)3.0 miles19
Table Bluff Rancheria3.2 miles16
Pine Hills3.4 miles16

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 Fields LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5447208The 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 1656012. 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.