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Lake Almanor Peninsula, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96137. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle. 366 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lake Almanor Peninsula within Plumas County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Almanor Peninsula, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Lake Almanor Peninsula, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Almanor Peninsula grew from 356 to 366 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
2010356
2020366+10 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Lake Almanor Peninsula between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,570 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning30
Recreation and ceremony29
Natural26
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2005Natural1,525 acresLassen Volcanic National ParkHORSESHOE
8 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestMICKEY
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection2-2 BORROW
5 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLassen-Modoc Unitnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestSTUMP
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestPRATTVILLE
29 September 2004Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLIGHNING #76
25 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestYELLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Almanor Peninsula: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone. 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
Hill TopGold, SilverPast Producer
QuarryStoneOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Lake Almanor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Lake Almanor Country Club0.3 miles28
Peninsula Village1.7 miles28
Almanor2.8 miles26
Foxwood2.8 miles28
Prattville3.1 miles26
Lake Almanor West3.1 miles26
Hamilton Branch3.4 miles25
East Shore4.0 miles27

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 Lake Almanor PeninsulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2013611The 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 2413636. 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.