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Lookout Junction, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Adin-Lookout census division. It lies near Summit Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Donica Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,245 feet above sea level.

Lookout Junction within Modoc County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lookout Junction, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Lookout Junction, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Lookout Junction between 1992 and 2018, burning about 505 acres in total. 38 started naturally. None was 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
Natural38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2007Natural2.0 acresNorthern California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 3738
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLIGHTNING #88
25 September 1994Natural1.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitLIGHTNING #77
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitEGG
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLIGHTNING 32
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-26 TROUT
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitCEDAR
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestCDF8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc 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
Lookout5.5 miles21
Demuth5.7 miles21
Day8.1 miles21
White Horse9.4 miles22
Scarface11.0 miles21
Hollenbeck (historical)14.3 miles21
Old Hulbert Place15.7 miles21
Adin16.0 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q6675478The 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 1656140. 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.