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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.

Macdoel within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 2001

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Macdoel, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Macdoel, surveyed 1886

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

Population over time

2 figures

Macdoel 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.

YearPeople Change
2010133
202086-47 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

39 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitBUTTE VALLEY ASS. #4
14 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKlamath National ForestDORRIS
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMAIN
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 76
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitRED ROCK
7 August 2006Natural1.0 acresSiskiyou UnitLIGHT #50
6 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPARSONS
5 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitWHEELER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Orohood PitSaltUnknown
Seandia No 1GoldProducer
Siskiyou Co. PortableStone, DimensionUnknown
Criss QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
James WhittStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Horsethief Butte PitPumiceProducer
Horsethief Butte PitPumiceProducer
Juniper Knoll PitPumiceProducer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018HailMacdoel-A spotter 2SW MacDoel reported hail, most of which were nickel-sized, but a few were quarter-sized.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMacdoel-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.

Every storm recorded in Siskiyou 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
Somerset1.9 miles24
Mount Hebron2.7 miles28
Jerome6.6 miles28
Kegg9.5 miles31
Dorris10.7 miles24
Penoyar11.4 miles28
Bray12.7 miles31
Leaf12.7 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 MacdoelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2806118The 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.