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Gottsville, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Hornbrook-Hilt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96097. It stands on Lumgrey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Badger Mountain quadrangle.

Gottsville 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 Gottsville, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Gottsville, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Gottsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,299 acres in total. 105 started naturally. 14 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
Natural105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestEMPIRE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestCHINA
5 September 2019Natural1,872 acresKlamath National ForestLIME
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreKlamath National Forestnot named
3 September 1992Natural2.0 acresKlamath National Forestnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitANDERSON GRADE
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKlamath National ForestHOUSE
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKlamath National ForestBAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 120 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 120 workings within 5 miles of Gottsville: 51 unknowns, 42 past producers, 20 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Chromium. 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
Chastain & BowenClayOccurrence
Reported LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Reported OccurrencesStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Great NorthernMercuryUnknown
Great Northern MineMercuryPast Producer1905, 1919
Herzog - Morgan ClaimsMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Black CapChromiumPast Producer
BlantonChromiumOccurrence
Buckhorn BallyChromium, GoldOccurrence
MathersonChromiumOccurrence

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
Swiss Bar1.5 miles27
Klamath River4.5 miles28
Walker5.7 miles28
Jims Camp8.6 miles27
Hawkinsville9.7 miles28
Henley9.7 miles27
Cinnabar Springs (historical)9.8 miles28
Hornbrook10.3 miles27

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 Q122573516The 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 1659727. 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.