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Indianola, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Arcata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95503. It lies near Rocky Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Arcata South quadrangle. 791 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Indianola within Humboldt County

Then and now

1922 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Indianola, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Indianola, surveyed 1922

Population over time

2 figures

Indianola fell from 823 to 791 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
2010823
2020791-32 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Indianola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 556 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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 2010Misuse of fire by a minor205 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitUNION ST / SAMOA BLVD
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte Unitnot named
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionWATER
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMCKAY
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitHUNSINGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Indianola: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Iron. 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
Jacoby Creek DepositLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Haw QuarryStoneOccurrence
Jacoby Creek DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Jacoby Creek DepositLimestone, GeneralProspectSedimentary
QuarryStonePast Producer
W A Preston ProspectIronProspect
W. A. Preston PropertyIronOccurrence
Freshwater SloughClayOccurrence
Freshwater SloughClayProspect
Haw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indianola in 2 storm reports in 2019: 2 flood. 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 2019FloodIndianola-Roadway flooding at Myrtle Ave and Ole Hansen Road. Water over a foot deep.
February 2019FloodIndianola-Roadway flooding at the intersection of Myrtle Ave and Indianola Cutoff.

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
Bracut1.0 miles21
Brainard1.4 miles21
Freshwater Corners1.9 miles21
Eddyville (historical)2.2 miles21
Bayside2.3 miles21
The Springs2.7 miles21
Myrtletown3.0 miles19
Sunny Brae3.3 miles21

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 IndianolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6024005The 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 1658821. 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.