Johnstonville, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Susanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96130. It stands on Lassen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Johnstonville quadrangle. 973 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,131 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresJohnstonville fell from 1,024 to 973 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,024 | |
| 2020 | 973 | -51 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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 Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Susanville NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Johnstonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
243 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Johnstonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,351 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined | 68 |
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Natural | 49 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Lassen-Modoc Unit | CENTER. |
| 9 September 2010 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Lassen-Modoc Unit | DIANE |
| 9 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Northern California District | CRAMER |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northern California District | LMU HOBO |
| 7 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Lassen-Modoc Unit | SUSAN RIVER APARTMENTS 4 |
| 7 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 210 acres | Lassen-Modoc Unit | DIANE |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen-Modoc Unit | CIRCLE DR SUSAN_RIVER_FP |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Lassen-Modoc Unit | LMUECC 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Johnstonville: 14 occurrences, 6 producers, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Stone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lantz | Iron | Occurrence | Hematite | |
| Standish | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Vermiculite | Occurrence | ||
| Burroughs and Raker | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Burroughs and Raker | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Greig | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Greig | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Gold Run Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Honey Lake Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mallery Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnstonville in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Heavy Rain | Johnstonville | - | Trained weather spotter 6 miles south-southeast of Susanville reported 3.00 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 6 December 0800PST to 8 December 0800PST at an elevation of 4823 feet MSL. |
| March 2018 | Heavy Rain | Johnstonville | - | Mesonet station D2000, 3 east-southeast of Susanville reported 1.49 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 0700PST to 23 March 0700PST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leavitt | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Susanville | 4.1 miles | 22 | |
| Janesville | 6.9 miles | 22 | |
| Belfast | 8.3 miles | 21 | |
| Buntingville | 8.7 miles | 21 | |
| Standish | 8.9 miles | 21 | |
| Edgemont | 9.0 miles | 21 | |
| Edgemont (historical) | 9.1 miles | 21 |
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 Johnstonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q11685232 | The 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 1658868. 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.











