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Kiska, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Red Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96035. It stands on Coyote Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gerber quadrangle.

Kiska within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kiska, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Kiska, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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

689 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 689 fires within 5 miles of Kiska between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,553 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined254
Equipment and vehicle use201
Debris and open burning124
Smoking42
Arson/incendiarism34
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
9 September 1993Smoking2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitRAWSON
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeTORRES, L.
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMAGNOLIA
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGRANT
7 September 2014Smokingunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitWORTHINGTON
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitFLORES
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTRUCKEE
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitGUTIERREZ,P

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama 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 Kiska: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Clement Avenue Gravel BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kiska in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
February 2019FloodKiska-Roadway closed due to flooding at E Chard Ave and Ventura Ave.

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Las Flores0.3 miles26
Gerber1.0 miles26
Proberta1.1 miles26
El Camino2.0 miles26
Tehama3.5 miles26
Rawson3.9 miles26
Los Molinos4.5 miles26
Dairyville4.7 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658910. 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.