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Kirkwood, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1987. It lies in ZIP code area 96021. It stands on Moore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood quadrangle.

Kirkwood within Glenn County

Then and now

1904 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kirkwood, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Kirkwood, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Kirkwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,337 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Debris and open burning24
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

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
3 September 2003Natural20 acresTehama-Glenn Unit4-13
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitFREEWAY.
29 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitJACOB, H.
28 September 1993Smoking2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTOWERS
26 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitHULTENSCHMIDT
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitLIBERAL/T12
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitGAY
23 September 2004Smokingunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitFREEWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glenn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kirkwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Glenn County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkwood in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flood. 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
December 2014FloodKirkwood-County Roads DD, E, FF, and G had closures due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Glenn 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
Malton (historical)4.2 miles18
Capay5.8 miles19
Cory6.0 miles18
Wyo6.1 miles18
Meadowood Estates7.2 miles18
Orland7.7 miles16
Mills Orchard9.9 miles15
Hamilton City11.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658909. 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.