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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.

Inwood within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1985

The 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 sheet of Inwood, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Inwood, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

165 since 1992

Regional 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity Unit44 #3
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use60 acresShasta-Trinity UnitWILSON
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitALPINE
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionREED
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSCHARSCH
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING #28
14 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use15 acresShasta-Trinity UnitOGBURN
13 September 1998Smokingunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitMILLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stewart & Moore ProspectDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Stewart & Moore ProspectDiatomiteProducer

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Flash FloodInwood2 killedA 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.

Every storm recorded in Shasta 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
Midway1.6 miles28
Shingletown4.2 miles25
Wagoner4.7 miles25
Ellis (historical)5.1 miles25
Redwoods5.1 miles28
Pawnee7.3 miles25
Smith7.6 miles25
Whitmore7.6 miles29

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.