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Greenville, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95947. It lies near North Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. 1,026 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,586 feet above sea level.

Greenville within Plumas County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Greenville, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Greenville fell from 1,129 to 1,026 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
20101,129
20201,026-103 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. 85 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
Natural85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Debris and open burning28
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePlumas National ForestHOT
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF 3
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePlumas National ForestWOLF 2
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestHORSE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection2-8 TROUGH
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection2-7 HAUN
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection2-9 PROSPECT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Greenville: 27 occurrences, 15 past producers, 12 unknowns, 10 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Chromium, Silver. 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
Gold Stripe ClaimChromium, GoldOccurrenceChromite
Lakeview Valley ViSilica, ManganesePast Producer
Standart MineGold, SilverProducer
Unnamed LocationTitanium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Wolf Creek ClaimIron, ChromiumPast Producer1916
Wolf Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
F. and A.Gold, SilverPast Producer
Goldstripe MineGold, SilverPlant
M and ZGold, SilverPast Producer
Standart MineGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Round Valley (historical)1.9 miles24
Crescent Mills3.7 miles24
Moccasin4.4 miles24
Indian Falls5.8 miles24
Canyondam6.8 miles27
Seneca7.4 miles25
Taylorsville7.4 miles24
Paxton7.4 miles24

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 GreenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2700934The 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 1658666. 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.