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Fort Jones, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Fort Jones census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96032. It stands on Kidder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Jones quadrangle. 695 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,759 feet above sea level.

Fort Jones 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 Fort Jones, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Fort Jones, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

On record in Fort Jones

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Jones fell from 839 to 695 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
2010839
2020695-144 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Fort Jones between 1992 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 50 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
Natural50
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
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
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRATTLESNAKE
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitMOFFETT
29 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictGRISWOLD
28 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitCHAPARREL
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitW MOFFETT CREEK
27 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLT # 81
23 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTHILL
21 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTHILL #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Fort Jones: 39 past producers, 23 occurrences, 12 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Silver, Copper. 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
BurtonLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Mclaughlin QuarryStoneProducer
Quartz Hill MineCopper, BismuthOccurrence
Reported OccurrenceGemstone, ZirconiumOccurrence
Tschopp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fort JonesClayPast Producer
Scott River Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
T HamiltonClayPast Producer
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
CostelloChromiumUnknown

Every working 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
Oro Fino4.7 miles29
Greenview5.2 miles29
Hooperville (historical)5.3 miles30
Mugginsville6.4 miles29
Cheeseville6.8 miles29
Deacon Lee Place9.9 miles33
Etna10.8 miles33
Scott Bar12.7 miles18

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 Fort JonesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q584377The 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 277519. 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.