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.
Then and now
1920 to 1981The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresLittle 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 117 | |
| 2020 | 94 | -23 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1920 USGS Fort Bragg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fort Bragg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Fort Bragg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Mendocino quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
213 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 88 |
| Debris and open burning | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern California District | PENNOCK |
| 9 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | TUPPER |
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | RIVER |
| 8 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | ALBION |
| 7 September 2009 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | LAKE |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Mendocino Unit | HEADLANDS |
| 7 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | STATE PARKS #3 |
| 6 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | J.S.F. #1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendocino | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Albion | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Whitesboro | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Pine Grove | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Caspar | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Melbourne | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Whiskey Springs | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Heeser Addition | 10.0 miles | 18 |
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 River | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459103 | 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 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.






