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Lakehead, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Sacramento Canyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96051. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lamoine quadrangle. 469 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.

Lakehead within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Lakehead, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Lakehead, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Lakehead grew from 461 to 469 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
2010461
2020469+8 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Lakehead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72,413 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 20 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 use66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony35
Natural29
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism20
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes5
Fireworks2

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 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestCOLD
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestGILMAN
8 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreShasta-Trinity National Forestnot named
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism343 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestELMORE
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestANTLERS
6 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestKAM
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestDELTA
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestANTLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lakehead: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper. 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
Gregory and WhalenCopperOccurrence
Gregory and WhalenCopperOccurrence
MccallGoldPast ProducerGold
PalmerGoldPast Producer
Unnamed PropertyGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakehead in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2000Heavy RainLakehead-A passing thunderstorm produced nearly 0.50 inches of rain in ten minutes.

Every storm 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
Antlers0.8 miles28
Pollock0.9 miles29
Riverview1.7 miles29
Lakeshore1.8 miles29
Sugarloaf3.4 miles29
Delta3.6 miles29
Vollmers4.1 miles29
Lamoine5.7 miles29

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 LakeheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6478731The 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 1658930. 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.