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Lyonsville, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It lies near Brazell Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Lyonsville quadrangle.

Lyonsville within Tehama 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 Lyonsville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Lyonsville, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Lyonsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,349 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 3 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitWELANDER, T
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreTehama-Glenn Unit1-2
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitLIGHTNING 1-2
27 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1,100 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPONDEROSA
26 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitEXPLORER
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPONDEROSA
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitTINCHER,W
2 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTehama-Glenn UnitSKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Lyman Springs1.6 miles27
Finley Place3.1 miles27
Dantuma Place3.5 miles27
Marian Place4.4 miles27
Yellowjacket5.4 miles27
McClure Place5.5 miles27
Peligreen Place7.4 miles28
Mineral8.0 miles28

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 LyonsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888567The 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 1659028. 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.