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Friend Place, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hayfork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96046. It stands on Naufus Creek. The Survey maps it on the Naufus Creek quadrangle.

Friend Place within Trinity County

Then and now

1918 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Friend Place, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Friend Place, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Friend Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26,878 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 5 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
Natural40
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestNAUFUS
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestDOLPHIN 2
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestFRIEND 2
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestDOLPHIN #1
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestTULE
18 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestMILLER
17 September 1993Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National Forestnot named
12 September 2001Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestMICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Friend Place: 14 occurrences, 8 prospects, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Gold, Copper, Gold. 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
Cedar Springs ClaimChromium, ManganeseProspect1941
MurphyCopper, SilverProducerCuprite, Malachite
Big Creek PlacerGoldUnknown
HoellingChromiumPast Producer
Hoelling ClaimsChromiumPast Producer1940
MaddoxCopper, GoldOccurrenceGold
Sulphur SpringsGoldProspect
Vine OakCopper, GoldOccurrence
Cold CreekCopperOccurrence
Cold CreekCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in Trinity 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
McClellan Place3.0 miles16
Miller Place3.8 miles16
Graham Place4.7 miles16
Norgaar (historical)5.4 miles16
Sids Place6.7 miles16
Forest Glen8.0 miles17
Mad River8.1 miles13
Post Mountain8.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122594852The 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 1658589. 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.