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Keswick, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Redding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96001. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Redding quadrangle. 188 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Keswick within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keswick, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Keswick, surveyed 1890

Population over time

2 figures

Keswick fell from 451 to 188 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
2010451
2020188-263 (-58%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 29 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

553 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 553 fires within 5 miles of Keswick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35,334 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 80 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/undetermined202
Equipment and vehicle use80
Arson/incendiarism80
Debris and open burning55
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Smoking36
Recreation and ceremony17
Natural16
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Firearms and explosives use9
Other causes5
Fireworks4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresNorthern California DistrictFLANAGAN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitMIDDLE 2
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthern California DistrictKESWICK 2
7 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWhiskeytown National Recreation AreaWHISKEYTOW
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitIRON #5
6 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitKESWICK 3
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitPINES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 244 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 244 workings within 5 miles of Keswick: 104 past producers, 74 unknowns, 48 occurrences, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Copper, Iron. 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
Brush Mountain PitPumiceProducer
Buena VistaGold, Copper, TungstenOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite
Calaveras Cement Div.Limestone, General, ClayProducer
CleavlandGold, Copper, Lead, IronPast ProducerGold
Evening StarGold, Copper, SilverPast ProducerCopper, Gold, Silver
GambrinusGold, ManganesePast ProducerGold, Pyrite, Pyrolusite
Holg and Gregg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
HorstmanGold, LeadOccurrenceVein
Iron Mountain MineCopper, Zinc, Gold, Platinum, Silver, IronPast Producer1865, 1897, 1962
GladysGold, SulfurPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Shasta 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
Hogtown (historical)0.9 miles29
Kett1.1 miles29
Shasta2.1 miles29
Waugh (historical)2.5 miles29
Matheson2.8 miles31
Whitehouse (historical)3.0 miles31
Minnesota3.0 miles31
Hart (historical)3.2 miles31

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 KeswickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5959239The 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 1658897. 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.