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Harlow Place, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the East Shasta census division. It lies near Dickson Flat. The Survey maps it on the Pondosa quadrangle.

Harlow Place within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harlow Place, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Harlow Place, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Harlow Place between 1992 and 2017, burning about 31 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitCUTOFF
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitCASSEL
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTNING #91
21 September 2008Natural1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitTED 1-2
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitSQUAW
14 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitFORT
14 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitFORT#2
8 August 2008Natural2.0 acresShasta-Trinity Unit1-26

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harlow Place: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Gravel PitGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Shasta 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
Obie2.6 miles25
Spalding Corner5.2 miles25
Cayton6.2 miles26
Dana6.4 miles26
Gomez11.4 miles26
Glenburn11.5 miles21
Four Corners14.8 miles28
Big Bend15.1 miles25

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 Q122562216The 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 1658715. 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.