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Loybas Hill, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Corning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96021. It stands on Kopta Slough. The Survey maps it on the Vina quadrangle.

Loybas Hill within Tehama County

Then and now

1904 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Loybas Hill, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Loybas Hill, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Loybas Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,062 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined149
Equipment and vehicle use142
Debris and open burning80
Arson/incendiarism26
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitAG BURN 2
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTHOMAS
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPETTIT, M.
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitRANDALL
7 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitKOFFORD. R.
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitSOUTH
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife RefugeBALLARD
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitMOON IC/TAC 12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Loybas Hill: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working 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
Vina2.7 miles18
Copeland3.6 miles18
Corning4.8 miles17
Ensign (historical)5.5 miles18
Richfield6.4 miles17
Los Molinos7.8 miles26
Tehama8.4 miles26
El Camino10.1 miles26

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 Loybas HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888571The 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 1659849. 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.