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Hackamore, California

24 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 Spaulding Butte. The Survey maps it on the Knobcone Butte quadrangle. It stands 4,705 feet above sea level.

Hackamore 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 Hackamore, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Hackamore, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Hackamore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 1 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
Natural76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2017Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestDEER
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestMDF-568
30 September 1994Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestHACKAMORE
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National ForestCANNON
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreModoc National ForestMDF DG NORTH
23 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestWHITNEY
23 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National ForestHENRY
18 September 1994Natural26 acresModoc National ForestDAMON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Boles3.5 miles24
Meares6.2 miles24
Ambrose8.3 miles22
Old Hulbert Place8.7 miles21
Kephart10.4 miles25
Hollenbeck (historical)10.5 miles21
Perez11.0 miles26
Tionesta12.6 miles26

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 HackamoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5637192The 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 1658692. 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.