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Keddie, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Quincy census division. It stands on Butterfly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crescent Mills quadrangle. 51 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,264 feet above sea level.

Keddie within Plumas County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keddie, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Keddie, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Keddie fell from 66 to 51 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
201066
202051-15 (-23%)

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

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Keddie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 662 acres in total. 101 started naturally. 15 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
Natural101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Other causes6
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 1998Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestFALLS
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestROCK
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestBUTTERFLY
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDAWN
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestROUND
30 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresPlumas National ForestPAXTON
29 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDAWN
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestKEDDIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 77 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 77 workings within 5 miles of Keddie: 26 occurrences, 17 unknowns, 16 past producers, 9 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Silver, Limestone, 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
Crystal LakeSilica, Manganese, IronPast Producer1918
Houghs PeakIronOccurrence
Lakeview Valley ViSilica, ManganesePast Producer
Rock-O MineStone, DimensionProducer
Feather River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pacific Portland Cement CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
ShooflyCopperOccurrenceBornite
ShooflyCopperUnknown
Spanish Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spanish Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Plumas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keddie in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 debris flow. 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
July 2013Debris FlowKeddie-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused a rock slide along Highway 70 on mile post 33.03 near Paxton, CA. The rock slide occurred around 6:47 pm PDT on July 2nd, where two large boulders were pushed onto the road. This rockslide caused delays to travelers, and CalTrans was called out to remove the boulders.

Every storm recorded in Plumas 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
Paxton2.4 miles24
Indian Falls2.9 miles24
Hot Springs3.9 miles25
Moccasin4.5 miles24
Quincy Junction4.9 miles29
Cedar Mill5.3 miles29
Quincy5.4 miles29
Grays Flat5.4 miles25

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 KeddieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2426159The 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 1656106. 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.