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Little River, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95456. It lies near Fern Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mendocino quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Little River within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Little River, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Little River, surveyed 1920

Population over time

2 figures

Little River fell from 117 to 94 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
2010117
202094-23 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Little River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,345 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined88
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use25
Recreation and ceremony21
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictPENNOCK
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMendocino UnitTUPPER
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitRIVER
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitALBION
7 September 2009Smoking1.0 acresMendocino UnitLAKE
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMendocino UnitHEADLANDS
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMendocino UnitSTATE PARKS #3
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitJ.S.F. #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Mendocino2.6 miles16
Albion3.4 miles13
Whitesboro4.1 miles13
Pine Grove5.6 miles16
Caspar6.6 miles16
Melbourne7.3 miles14
Whiskey Springs9.1 miles14
Heeser Addition10.0 miles18

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 Little RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459103The 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 1658981. 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.