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Lomo, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Paradise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95942. The Survey maps it on the Butte Meadows quadrangle. It stands 3,779 feet above sea level.

Lomo within Butte 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 Lomo, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Lomo, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Lomo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,006 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSKYWAY / HUMBUG SUMMIT R
5 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreButte UnitMEADOWS
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection280
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined140 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSODA
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acreButte UnitLIGHTNING
18 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte Unit32
18 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreButte UnitCAMPBELL
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLassen National ForestOBE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Lomo: 18 past producers, 14 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Iron, Chromium. 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
Glenn ProspectChromiumOccurrence
Boulder Number 2Gold, SilverPast Producer
Miscellaneous OccurrencesIronProspect
Remple PropertyIronProspect
TenderfootGold, SilverPast Producer
Bessie MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Bessie MineGoldUnknown
Bluebird MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Bluebird MineGoldUnknown
Edna M. PropertyGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lomo in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flood. 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
February 2025FloodLomo-The California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding of the eastbound lane on State Route 32 near Butte Meadows.

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Butte Meadows4.5 miles27
Inskip5.2 miles25
Powellton7.9 miles25
Jonesville9.4 miles24
Dodge Place9.9 miles27
Cohasset9.9 miles27
Stirling City10.2 miles25
Lovelock10.4 miles25

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 LomoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6669489The 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 262795. 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.