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Hyampom, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hayfork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96046. It stands on Hayfork Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hyampom quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.

Hyampom within Trinity County

Then and now

1909 to 1998

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 Hyampom, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Hyampom, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Hyampom grew from 241 to 241 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
2010241
20202410 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Hyampom between 1992 and 2019, burning about 30,436 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 16 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
Natural55
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestHYAMPOM
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestSHEEP
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestHALFWAY
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestAIR
5 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestDUMP
4 September 2018Other causes1,751 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestKERLIN
4 September 2003Natural185 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestRAY
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestPEAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Hyampom: 6 prospects, 5 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, Gold, Limestone, Dimension. 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
HyampomLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnnamedGoldUnknown
UnnamedGoldUnknown
Number One OccurrenceChromiumPast ProducerChromite
Oak RidgeChromiumProspect
PallestreauChromiumOccurrence
RedskinChromiumProspect
Sangra LaChromiumPast Producer
Sangra La Claim, Vance GroupChromiumPast ProducerChromite
Schules, Pallestreau ClaimsChromiumPast Producer1915

Every working recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hyampom in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 heavy rain. 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
February 2017Heavy RainHyampom$4,000,000Culvert failures and slipouts along Highway 36 in Trinity County from mile post 2 to 14.
January 2025Heavy RainHyampom-A section of Pelletreau Ridge Road and Wintoon|Flat Road washed out and closed, 2 miles southwest of Hyampom, CA.|Lat. 40.59N, Long. -123.48W.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Wigdon Place4.0 miles19
McClellan Place9.2 miles16
Friend Place10.2 miles16
Miller Place10.5 miles16
Mad River11.8 miles13
Del Loma12.8 miles20
Burnt Ranch13.3 miles19
Luckie Place13.3 miles22

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 HyampomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458372The 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 261667. 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.