BlockHomestead, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Newell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96134. The Survey maps it on the Tulelake quadrangle. It stands 4,035 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1892 USGS Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 750 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | JEEP |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MDF ASST#1 |
| 5 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | FIELD |
| 5 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | FROG |
| 22 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | ELVIS |
| 2 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | FROG |
| 16 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | FROG |
| 13 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MALLARD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stronghold | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Dalton | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Tuber | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Staley | 2.8 miles | 23 | |
| Suty (historical) | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Newell | 3.2 miles | 25 | |
| Liskey | 4.5 miles | 24 | |
| Hannchen | 5.2 miles | 24 |
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 Q14682320 | The 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 252691. 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.