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Mabie, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Portola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96122. The Survey maps it on the Blairsden quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,882 feet above sea level.

Mabie within Plumas County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mabie, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mabie, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Mabie grew from 161 to 181 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
2010161
2020181+20 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Mabie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 9 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
Natural61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning51
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2
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
8 September 2004Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestDELLEKER
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestC
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestHORSE
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestPEN
30 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestROCKY
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acrePlumas National ForestROAD
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mabie: 6 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Big Mohawk MineCopperUnknown
ValentineCopperOccurrenceUnknown
Frazier Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Willow Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
AntelopeGoldOccurrence
BullionGoldOccurrence
LauraGoldOccurrence
Ohio MineGoldUnknown
Quartz Mine 93GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Delaney (historical)0.3 miles29
Iron Horse1.3 miles24
Delleker1.6 miles24
Portola3.0 miles24
Mohawk Vista3.2 miles29
Valley Ranch4.5 miles28
Clio4.7 miles28
Dentens (historical)5.0 miles29

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 MabieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5988582The 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 1659029. 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.