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Grizzlie Place, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Alturas census division. It lies near Island Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,223 feet above sea level.

Grizzlie Place within Modoc County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grizzlie Place, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Grizzlie Place, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Grizzlie Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 68 acres in total. 62 started naturally. None 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
Natural62
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 September 2007Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestMDF-651
2 September 1992Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestWILLOWS
17 September 1993Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestMULKEY
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestBSFMU
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestFLETCHER
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestFLECTHER
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestSOUTH
13 September 1998Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestENQUIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Grizzlie Place: 17 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Borrow PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Borrow PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown
Borrow PitStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Modoc 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
Mulkey Place2.5 miles22
Fletcher Place13.1 miles22
Willow Ranch15.0 miles22
Fairport17.9 miles22
Davis Creek18.3 miles22
Surprise Station25.0 miles22
Fort Bidwell26.1 miles23
Daphnedale Park27.5 miles22

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 Q5609775The 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 260902. 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.