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Herlong, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Honey Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96113. The Survey maps it on the Herlong quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,114 feet above sea level.

Herlong within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Herlong, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Herlong, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Herlong fell from 298 to 237 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010298
2020237-61 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Herlong between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84,201 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern California DistrictWINTERS
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCCD HACK
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictMARK
29 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCarson City District OfficeTITLE 9
29 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCCD MP 368
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictMANZANITA 2
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitBUILDING 309 SIERRA ARMY
27 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCCD LONG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Herlong: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Azevedo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Basic Rock Products IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cowboy Joe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Doyle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Doyle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Long Valley Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salt Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herlong in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 1999Funnel CloudHerlong-Unconfirmed report of funnel cloud over Honey Lake Basin in eastern Lassen County.

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
Patton Village1.1 miles21
Herlong Junction6.1 miles23
Calneva6.7 miles20
Doyle8.1 miles21
Stacy8.5 miles20
Omira12.6 miles27
Milford12.7 miles22
Constantia14.3 miles27

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 HerlongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476047The 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 1658740. 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.

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.