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Juniper, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Alturas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96101. It stands on North Fork Pit River. The Survey maps it on the Alturas quadrangle. It stands 4,354 feet above sea level.

Juniper within Modoc County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Juniper, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Juniper, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Juniper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning12
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresModoc National Wildlife RefugeRANCH
22 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresModoc National Wildlife RefugeRANCHIERA
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreModoc National Wildlife RefugeWOODDUCK
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National Wildlife RefugeALV#2
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitHAT (4-1)
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestBSFMU42
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreModoc National Wildlife RefugeLGT #91 (4-2)
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreModoc National Wildlife Refuge60

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Juniper: 12 unknowns, 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Pumice. 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
Richardson Cinder PitPumiceProducer
UnknownStoneOccurrence
UnknownStoneOccurrence
UnknownStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneUnknown
Unnamed LocationStonePast Producer
Unnamed LocationStoneUnknown
W. E. MinardStoneOccurrence
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dorris Reservoir PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Modoc 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
Alturas1.7 miles24
Lakeview Junction1.9 miles24
Daphnedale Park2.5 miles22
Paola (historical)2.9 miles24
California Pines7.4 miles23
Bormister8.8 miles23
Surprise Station9.7 miles22
Fletcher (historical)9.9 miles22

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 Q14682542The 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 1658876. 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.