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Los Molinos, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96055. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Los Molinos quadrangle. 2,098 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Los Molinos within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Los Molinos, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Los Molinos, surveyed 1890

On record in Los Molinos

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Los Molinos grew from 2,037 to 2,098 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
20102,037
20202,098+61 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 26 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

535 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 535 fires within 5 miles of Los Molinos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,192 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined219
Equipment and vehicle use132
Debris and open burning102
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking26
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeTORRES, L.
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMAGNOLIA
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGRANT
7 September 2014Smokingunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitWORTHINGTON
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitROWEN,C
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPG&E #3
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitTEHAMA
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitROMIANO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Los Molinos: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Vina Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Doyle Pit #17Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fox's Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Piedmont Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomes Creek Gravel BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Molinos in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2017FloodLos Molinos$50,000Flooding with evacuations in 2 RV parks.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindLos Molinos$5,000A thunderstorm with straight line winds in excess of 95 mph (estimated) destroyed an awning of a home. The awning was 14 feet wide and 55 feet long and was completely destroyed. It broke the bolts securing it to the concrete slab and lifted the structure up and over the home, damaging power lines and a portion of the roof where it was attached to the house.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindLos Molinos$1,000A thunderstorm with straight line winds in excess of 95 mph (estimated) from passing thunderstorms brought down a 4 foot in diameter trunk, 200 foot tall pine tree. The tree narrowly missed the home, falling to the east.
February 2019FloodLos Molinos-Highway 99 was closed from Aramayo Way to South Avenue in the area of Vina.
April 1997Funnel CloudLos Molinos-Tehama County sheriffs observed two funnel clouds over the city.

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Tehama1.3 miles26
Ensign (historical)2.5 miles18
Gerber3.6 miles26
El Camino4.0 miles26
Kiska4.5 miles26
Las Flores4.8 miles26
Copeland4.9 miles18
Richfield5.2 miles17

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 Los MolinosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2396734The 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 277548. 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.