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.
Then and now
1890 to 1998The 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.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresLakehead 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 461 | |
| 2020 | 469 | +8 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1901 USGS Redding quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1946 USGS Lamoine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Lamoine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1969 USGS Lamoine quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Lamoine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Lamoine quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
280 since 1992Regional 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 use | 66 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 35 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | COLD |
| 8 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | GILMAN |
| 8 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 343 acres | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | ELMORE |
| 7 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | ANTLERS |
| 6 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | KAM |
| 6 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | DELTA |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | ANTLER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory and Whalen | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Gregory and Whalen | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Mccall | Gold | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Palmer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Property | Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Heavy Rain | Lakehead | - | A passing thunderstorm produced nearly 0.50 inches of rain in ten minutes. |
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.
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 Lakehead | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6478731 | The 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.









