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Halls Flat, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Big Valley census division. The Survey maps it on the Jellico quadrangle. It stands 5,705 feet above sea level.

Halls Flat within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Halls Flat, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Halls Flat, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Halls Flat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,035 acres in total. 70 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
Natural70
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestHOME
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestBUTTE
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestCABIN
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestCONE
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLassen National ForestFRANKLIN3
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestBUFFLEHEAD
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestFOUND
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLassen National ForestHOME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halls Flat in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2018Heavy RainHalls Flat-Mesonet station BKMC1 22 miles south-southeast of Pittville reported 0.84 inches of precipitation within a 24-hour period from 24 December 0700PST to 25 December 0700PST. Mesonet elevation 6008 feet MSL.
December 2018Heavy RainHalls Flat-Mesonet station BKMC1 Blacks Mountain reported 0.84 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 December 0700PST to 25 December 0700PST.

Every storm recorded in Lassen 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
Jellico6.4 miles27
Little Valley10.5 miles26
Dixie13.8 miles26
Norvell23.0 miles25
Nubieber23.8 miles21
Sheepshead24.0 miles22
Pumpkin Center25.7 miles21
Hayden Hill25.7 miles21

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 Halls FlatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5643147The 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 1658700. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.