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Fruitland, California

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95554. It stands on Sequoia Creek. The Survey maps it on the Myers Flat quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Fruitland within Humboldt County

Then and now

1921 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fruitland, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Fruitland, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Fruitland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined66
Equipment and vehicle use51
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
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
8 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitJIM
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCOLLINS
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined140 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCOLONY
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSALMON
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitLOG
4 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitEEL
4 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitFISH
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMYERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
McCann2.0 miles11
Whitlow2.0 miles11
Myers Flat3.1 miles11
Tanoak (historical)3.2 miles11
Smith (historical)3.4 miles11
Miranda4.2 miles15
Burlington4.5 miles12
Oak Glen4.6 miles12

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 FruitlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5364078The 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 1658590. 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.