Henryford, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96062. It lies near Tabournel Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Palo Cedro quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Henryford within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Henryford (historical), surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Henryford (historical), surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 26 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1901 USGS Redding quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Millville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1965 USGS Palo Cedro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Henryford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,451 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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
Equipment and vehicle use	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	WOODYS
8 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	GARBE
7 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	WHITMORE
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	RUN
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	SILVER
5 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1,200 acres	Shasta-Trinity Unit	OAK RUN
5 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	SWEDE
4 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	SKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Millville	2.6 miles	26
Smith	4.9 miles	25
Ellis (historical)	5.0 miles	25
Palo Cedro	5.5 miles	26
Wagoner	5.8 miles	25
Wilkinson	5.9 miles	26
Pawnee	6.0 miles	25
Calkins (historical)	6.9 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1682494. 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.