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Hooker, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Red Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96022. The Survey maps it on the Hooker quadrangle.

Hooker within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hooker, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Hooker, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

456 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 456 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,445 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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 use181
Missing data/not specified/undetermined148
Debris and open burning48
Arson/incendiarism28
Smoking17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitBRINCAT,E
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresTehama-Glenn UnitVALLEY 2
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitSADDLEBACK
7 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitREEDS
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMCCASLIN,R
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitSMOAK, R
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitBOWMAN
4 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitCRISEL, G.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hooker: 5 producers. All of them 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
Cottonwood Creek BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cottonwood Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hooker CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hooker Creek BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hooker Creek BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooker in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 hail. 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
December 2024FloodHooker-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding from heavy rain near Lake California Drive and Del Mar Drive just east of Interstate 5.
November 2024FloodHooker-California Highway Patrol reported the roadway is completely washed out from heavy rain.
March 2009HailHooker-Hail blanketed the ground to 2 inches deep on Bowman Rd. near Interstate 5. Most of the hail was pea size. There were 3 car accidents reported in the area on Interstate 5 during the hail event, with two ambulances dispatched.

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Ninemile (historical)2.7 miles21
Blunt4.5 miles21
Bend7.0 miles26
Red Bluff9.7 miles27
Rosewood12.3 miles20
Walker Place (historical)12.7 miles20
Hercraff Place13.2 miles20
Dales13.6 miles23

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 HookerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888565The 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 252692. 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.