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Karlo, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Madeline Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96117. It lies near Vincent Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Karlo quadrangle. It stands 4,432 feet above sea level.

Karlo within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Karlo, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Karlo, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Karlo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 818 acres in total. 12 started naturally. None was 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
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2017Natural17 acresNorthern California DistrictR2 BUTTE WELL
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictR5 SHAFFER WELL
4 September 2003Natural34 acresNorthern California DistrictSNOWSTORM
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorthern California DistrictCARLO
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictFRENCH
8 August 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictSTORM
23 August 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictR10 CANYON
22 August 2017Natural1.5 acresNorthern California DistrictR2 CARLO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Karlo in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 1 flood, 1 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
April 2018Heavy RainKarlo-Mesonet station HLKC1, 13 miles south-southwest of Ravendale (5100 feet) reported 1.07 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 0640PST to 7 April 0640PST.
January 2017FloodKarlo-The Secret Valley Rest area on Highway 395 was flooded, likely due to the overflow of a branch of Secret Creek. Highway 395 was closed between Wendel Road and Termo at around 2045PST on the 8th. The end time is approximate and based on the end of heavier rain on the 9th. Damages from this specific event are unknown, although a preliminary damage assessment (CALTRANS) for flood repairs to Highway 395 in January and February totaled $1.8M.

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
Viewland8.5 miles20
The Crossing9.5 miles21
Horse Lake9.7 miles19
Belfast10.3 miles21
Litchfield12.2 miles21
Crest12.4 miles20
Shumway13.7 miles19
Standish14.0 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.

Wikidata item Q6372528The 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 1658883. 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.

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.