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Lumpkin, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Feather Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95941. It stands on Big Winters Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clipper Mills quadrangle. It stands 3,586 feet above sea level.

Lumpkin within Butte County

Then and now

1888 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lumpkin, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lumpkin, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Lumpkin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,788 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 7 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
Natural33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitGORDON
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresPlumas National ForestJACK
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSWAIN
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestSAWDUST
28 September 1994Natural1.0 acresCentral California DistrictABC MISC
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestLOST
27 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresButte UnitSWAIN
25 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreButte UnitBRYANT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Lumpkin: 37 occurrences, 17 past producers, 14 unknowns, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Chromium, Nickel. 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
Mooretown MarbleLimestone, Dimension, Marble, DimensionUnknown
Quartz HillNickelUnknown
Quartz Hill AreaNickelOccurrence1957
Diamond QueenChromiumPast ProducerChromite
Dickey and Dreisbach ProspectChromiumPast ProducerChromite
Dickey and Dreisbach ProspectChromiumOccurrence
North StarChromiumPast Producer1917
North StarChromiumOccurrence
Unknown NameChromiumOccurrence
Unnamed OccurrenceChromiumOccurrenceChromite

Every working 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
Rogerville0.7 miles29
Camp Eighteen2.4 miles28
Feather Falls2.8 miles27
Wagners (historical)2.9 miles28
Nelsons Crossing3.7 miles28
Oroleve6.0 miles29
Clipper Mills6.0 miles29
Old Forbestown6.8 miles27

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 LumpkinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6703423The 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 1656146. 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.