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Houghton Place, California

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the West Tehama census division. The Survey maps it on the Hall Ridge quadrangle.

Houghton Place within Tehama County

Then and now

1952 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Houghton Place, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Houghton Place, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Houghton Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 590,470 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestHORSE
3 September 2003Natural5.0 acresMendocino National ForestCONKLIN
3 September 2003Natural3.0 acresMendocino National ForestHAVALON
3 September 2003Natural5.0 acresMendocino National ForestHALL
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestBUCK SPRINGS
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn Unit4-4
14 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino National ForestSALT93
21 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino National ForestSALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Houghton Place: 8 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, Clay, Gold. 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
Bowers CreekGoldProspect
Conklin & WilliamsClayProspect
Conklin and WilliamsChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Grey Eagle MineChromiumPast Producer
Elva Manganese MineManganeseOccurrence
Elva MineManganeseProspect1918
LockwoodManganeseOccurrence
Lockwood ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Logan ClaimManganeseOccurrenceRhodochrosite
Logan ClaimManganeseOccurrence1918

Every working 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
Whitlock Place2.4 miles12
Wilder Place2.9 miles12
Peterson Place6.8 miles16
Dawson Place8.3 miles13
Paskenta8.9 miles13
Sunnyside10.3 miles13
Mitchell Place10.8 miles13
Bollinger Place11.0 miles14

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 Q122573011The 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 1658786. 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.