Macdoel, California
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Butte Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96058. It lies near Juniper Knoll. The Survey maps it on the MacDoel quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,252 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1886 to 2001The same ground, surveyed 115 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1886 against another survey:
On record in Macdoel
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 1 record
- Hotel Macdoellisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresMacdoel fell from 133 to 86 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 133 | |
| 2020 | 86 | -47 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1934 USGS Macdoel quadrangle1:96000
- 1941 USGS Macdoel quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Macdoel quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Yreka quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Macdoel quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Macdoel quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
39 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Macdoel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 19 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | BUTTE VALLEY ASS. #4 |
| 14 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Klamath National Forest | DORRIS |
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MAIN |
| 9 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | LIGHTNING 76 |
| 7 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | RED ROCK |
| 7 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Siskiyou Unit | LIGHT #50 |
| 6 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | PARSONS |
| 5 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | WHEELER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Macdoel: 6 producers, 3 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Orohood Pit | Salt | Unknown | ||
| Seandia No 1 | Gold | Producer | ||
| Siskiyou Co. Portable | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Criss Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| James Whitt | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Horsethief Butte Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Horsethief Butte Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Juniper Knoll Pit | Pumice | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macdoel in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Hail | Macdoel | - | A spotter 2SW MacDoel reported hail, most of which were nickel-sized, but a few were quarter-sized. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Macdoel | - | The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported extensive wind, rain, and hail damage to crops around Butte Valley and Tulelake. Crop damage included 1400 acres of strawberry root stock and several alfalfa and potato fields. No cost estimate is available at this time. |
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.
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 Macdoel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2806118 | The 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 1659030. 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.











