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Jenks Place, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Orland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95939. It stands on Snow Basin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plaskett Meadows quadrangle. It stands 5,295 feet above sea level.

Jenks Place within Glenn County

Then and now

1952 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jenks Place, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Jenks Place, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Jenks Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,072 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 5 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
Natural26
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2003Natural42 acresMendocino National ForestBROCK
5 September 2003Natural75 acresMendocino National ForestWALKER CABIN
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestPLASKETT
3 September 2003Natural139 acresMendocino National ForestICE
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMendocino National ForestBOARD III
23 September 1998Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestMCCOY
21 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMendocino National ForestBOARD II
20 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMendocino National ForestBOARD I

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glenn 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 Jenks Place: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Black ButtesCopperOccurrenceCuprite
Black ButtesCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Glenn 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
Lone Star2.1 miles13
Copper City2.3 miles13
Keller Place3.2 miles12
Fiddlers Green7.2 miles16
Reynolds Place (historical)7.6 miles16
Alder Springs7.6 miles16
Meyers Place10.3 miles15
Dogtown11.0 miles15

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 Q6177667The 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 1658857. 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.