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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.

Johnstonville within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Johnstonville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Johnstonville, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Johnstonville 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,024
2020973-51 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

243 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning51
Natural49
Equipment and vehicle use40
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresLassen-Modoc UnitCENTER.
9 September 2010Smoking1.3 acresLassen-Modoc UnitDIANE
9 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictCRAMER
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLMU HOBO
7 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use30 acresLassen-Modoc UnitSUSAN RIVER APARTMENTS 4
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresLassen-Modoc UnitDIANE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitCIRCLE DR SUSAN_RIVER_FP
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLMUECC 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
LantzIronOccurrenceHematite
StandishPumiceProducer
Unnamed LocationVermiculiteOccurrence
Burroughs and RakerStoneOccurrence
Burroughs and RakerStone, DimensionPast Producer
GreigStoneOccurrence
GreigStone, DimensionUnknown
Gold Run PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Honey Lake Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mallery PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2019Heavy RainJohnstonville-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 2018Heavy RainJohnstonville-Mesonet station D2000, 3 east-southeast of Susanville reported 1.49 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 0700PST to 23 March 0700PST.

Every storm recorded in Lassen 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
Leavitt3.4 miles23
Susanville4.1 miles22
Janesville6.9 miles22
Belfast8.3 miles21
Buntingville8.7 miles21
Standish8.9 miles21
Edgemont9.0 miles21
Edgemont (historical)9.1 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 JohnstonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11685232The 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.