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Heeser Addition, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Bragg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95437. It lies near Covington Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bragg quadrangle. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Heeser Addition within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Heeser Addition, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Heeser Addition, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

382 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Heeser Addition between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined150
Debris and open burning79
Equipment and vehicle use49
Recreation and ceremony24
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Smoking20
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Natural8
Other causes3

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMendocino UnitMCDH FORT_BRAGG
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMendocino UnitFRANKLIN RD FORTB 8
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitODELL INCIDENT
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino UnitLIGNTNING 108
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitMITCHELL
7 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCASPAR
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMendocino UnitMULLEN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitTURNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Noyo1.9 miles18
South Fork2.4 miles14
Fort Bragg2.8 miles18
Glenblair3.8 miles14
Caspar4.3 miles16
Redwood Lodge4.6 miles14
Pine Grove5.1 miles16
Cleone5.2 miles18

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 Q5698158The 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 1653041. 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.