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Hoopa, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Willow Creek-Hoopa Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95546. It stands on Supply Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoopa quadrangle. 3,167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Hoopa within Humboldt County

Then and now

1925 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hoopa, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Hoopa, surveyed 1925

Compare 1925 against another survey:

On record in Hoopa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Hoopa grew from 3,040 to 3,167 between 2000 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
20003,040
20103,393+353 (+12%)
20203,167-226 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

4,228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4,228 fires within 5 miles of Hoopa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,940 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 2993 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
Arson/incendiarism2993
Debris and open burning766
Missing data/not specified/undetermined154
Recreation and ceremony110
Fireworks51
Natural41
Other causes40
Equipment and vehicle use28
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking5

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
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoopa Valley TribeTISH TANG 11
9 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreHoopa Valley TribeSHOEMAKER 4
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoopa Valley TribeTISH TANG #3
9 September 2010Other causesunder an acreHoopa Valley TribeMARSHALL # 2
9 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoopa Valley TribeTISH TANG # 12
9 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreHoopa Valley TribeRODEO #3
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresHoopa Valley TribeRODEO #2
9 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoopa Valley TribeBIGHILL #6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hoopa: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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
Angel RanchClayOccurrence
Copper BluffCopper, ZincOccurrence
Copper BluffCopper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer1957
Sugar BowlGold, SilverPast Producer
Hoopa Indian ReservationChromiumOccurrenceFloat
Hoopa Indian ReservationChromiumProspect
Hoopa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rowland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sam Brown ProspectManganeseOccurrence1942
Sam Brown World War No. 2 ProspectManganeseOccurrenceRhodonite

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoopa in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 heavy rain, 1 wildfire. 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
January 2017Heavy RainHoopa$1,500,000Landslide along highway 96 near Tish Tang Campground.
February 2025Heavy RainHoopa$3,500A landslide from heavy rain blocking both lanes of Highway 96, 4 miles north northwest of Hoopa, CA. Lat. 41.11N, Long. -123.69W.
February 2025Heavy RainHoopa$1,100Heavy rain likely caused a slide on hwy 96, 3 miles south southeast of Hoopa. |Lat. 41.01N, Long -123.64W.
March 2024Heavy RainHoopa$1,100Rocks in both lanes 3 miles south southeast of Hoopa, CA. LAT. 41.01N, LONG. 123.65W.
December 2025Heavy RainHoopa-Rocks in both lanes of Highway 96 near Tish Tang Campground.
March 2024Heavy RainHoopa-Landslide reported 1 mile south of Hoopa, closing hwy 96. LAT. 41.04N, LONG. -123.67W.
January 2023Heavy RainHoopa-Roadway blocked by a rock slide.
December 2022Heavy RainHoopa-Heavy rain caused a landslide along HWY 96 south of Hoopa.
December 2022Heavy RainHoopa-Heavy rain caused mud and rock to flow.
October 1999WildfireHoopa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Willow Creek8.0 miles18
Pekwuteu (historical)9.4 miles16
Ertlerger (historical)9.4 miles16
Weitchpec9.7 miles16
Martins Ferry (historical)11.7 miles17
Waseck12.3 miles17
Lockharts (historical)13.8 miles16
Opegoi (historical)14.9 miles16

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 HoopaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5898327The 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 1658773. 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.