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Hershey, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Knights Landing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95937. It stands on Little Buckeye Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunnigan quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Hershey within Yolo County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hershey, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hershey, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Hershey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 894 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
3 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use19 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitROAD
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitROAD 2
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 August 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yolo 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
Dunnigan3.1 miles22
Wycoff (historical)5.3 miles24
Britona (historical)8.4 miles24
Tyndall Landing9.9 miles21
Zamora10.8 miles24
Guinda12.4 miles20
Ronda (historical)12.5 miles22
Rumsey13.0 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 Q5744497The 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 1656068. 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.