Inwood, California
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96088. It stands on South Fork Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Inwood quadrangle.
Then and now
1886 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1935 USGS Burney quadrangle1:125000
- 1935 USGS Burney quadrangle1:96000
- 1939 USGS Burney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Burney quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Inwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
165 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Inwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 778 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | 44 #3 |
| 4 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | WILSON |
| 3 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | ALPINE |
| 26 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | REED |
| 15 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | SCHARSCH |
| 14 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | LIGHTNING #28 |
| 14 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | OGBURN |
| 13 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | MILLER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Inwood: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart & Moore Prospect | Diatomite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Stewart & Moore Prospect | Diatomite | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inwood in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2014 | Flash Flood | Inwood | 2 killed | A 19 year old man and a 19-year-old women were driving in a vehicle that was swept off a small bridge over Lack Creek. Both were found drowned, their car about three quarters of a mile down stream. About 3.12 inches of rain fell nearby, measured by a RAWS station at Shingletown over 24 hours. Of that, 2.87 inches of rain fell in the 5 hours before the accident. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 1.6 miles | 28 | |
| Shingletown | 4.2 miles | 25 | |
| Wagoner | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Ellis (historical) | 5.1 miles | 25 | |
| Redwoods | 5.1 miles | 28 | |
| Pawnee | 7.3 miles | 25 | |
| Smith | 7.6 miles | 25 | |
| Whitmore | 7.6 miles | 29 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252700. 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.













