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Hornbrook, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Hornbrook-Hilt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96044. It lies near Rancheria Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hornbrook quadrangle. 266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,172 feet above sea level.

Hornbrook within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 115 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hornbrook, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Hornbrook, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Hornbrook grew from 248 to 266 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
2010248
2020266+18 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Hornbrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39,618 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 7 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
Natural52
Equipment and vehicle use45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning20
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitBAILEY
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSiskiyou UnitBAILEY #2
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSiskiyou UnitCOLLIER
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitCOYOTE
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern California DistrictRIVER
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPP&L #3
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTNING #190
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTNING # 85

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Hornbrook: 27 past producers, 15 occurrences, 15 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Copper, Manganese. 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
AmazonGold, CopperPast ProducerGold
HornbrookGemstoneOccurrence
J F BurgerPlatinumPast Producer
NebraskaGold, ManganesePast ProducerUnderground
StoughGold, SilverPast Producer
UnnamedGold, LeadPast Producer
Unnamed LocationGold, LeadUnknown
AmazonGoldOccurrence
Badger State Co.GoldPast ProducerGold
Ben Z BarGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou 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
Henley0.7 miles27
Jims Camp5.6 miles27
Ager5.9 miles29
Hilt6.9 miles27
Cole7.8 miles23
Swiss Bar8.9 miles27
Snowden9.1 miles29
Gottsville10.3 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 HornbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2340899The 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 266820. 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.