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Jonesville, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Paradise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95942. It stands on Jones Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jonesville quadrangle. It stands 5,049 feet above sea level.

Jonesville within Butte County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jonesville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Jonesville, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Jonesville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 15,138 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestHUMBUG
30 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestTRAIL
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestSUMMIT
27 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestCOLBY
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLassen National ForestCUDDLEBACK
15 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestCOLBY
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestMILKHOUSE
11 September 1993Smokingunder an acreLassen National ForestHUMBOLDT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte 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 Jonesville: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Lost Treasure MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Lost Treasure MineGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonesville in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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
January 2017Debris FlowJonesville$48,000Multiple rockfalls blocked SR 70 in the Feather River Canyon with rocks and large boulders.
January 2023FloodJonesville-California Highway Patrol reports numerous roads closed across Butte County due to roadway flooding, including SR 70 from Jarbo Gap to SR 89, Central House from SR 70 to Lone Tree, and SR 162 in multiple locations.

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Butte Meadows4.9 miles27
Inskip9.3 miles25
Lomo9.4 miles27
Powellton13.8 miles25
Stirling City14.5 miles25
Lovelock16.3 miles25
Toadtown16.8 miles25
DeSabla18.0 miles24

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 JonesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6275426The 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 262014. 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.