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.
Then and now
1886 to 1994The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresKeddie 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 66 | |
| 2020 | 51 | -15 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Crescent Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Crescent Mills quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
275 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 101 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 61 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | FALLS |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | ROCK |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | BUTTERFLY |
| 5 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | DAWN |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | ROUND |
| 30 September 2006 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Plumas National Forest | PAXTON |
| 29 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | DAWN |
| 25 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | KEDDIE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 77 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Lake | Silica, Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Houghs Peak | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Lakeview Valley Vi | Silica, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Rock-O Mine | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Feather River Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pacific Portland Cement Co | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Shoofly | Copper | Occurrence | Bornite | |
| Shoofly | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Spanish Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spanish Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Debris Flow | Keddie | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paxton | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Indian Falls | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Hot Springs | 3.9 miles | 25 | |
| Moccasin | 4.5 miles | 24 | |
| Quincy Junction | 4.9 miles | 29 | |
| Cedar Mill | 5.3 miles | 29 | |
| Quincy | 5.4 miles | 29 | |
| Grays Flat | 5.4 miles | 25 |
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 Keddie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2426159 | The 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.











