Mary Ellen Place, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It lies near Wakefield Flat. The Survey maps it on the Raglin Ridge quadrangle.

Mary Ellen Place within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mary Ellen Place, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet of Mary Ellen Place, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1949 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Raglin Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1995 USGS Raglin Ridge quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Mary Ellen Place between 1993 and 2019, burning about 11,509 acres in total. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
9 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	ROCKY FIRE
5 September 2019	Natural	8,838 acres	Northern California District	RED BANK
3 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Northern California District	TGU LGT 37
3 September 2003	Natural	3.0 acres	Northern California District	TGU LGT 48
2 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	BECHELLI, D.
5 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	PETTYJOHN
28 August 1999	Natural	102 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	DEXTER
24 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	STROING,D.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mary Ellen Place: 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence
Trinity River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Basaler	Copper	Prospect

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bayles Place	2.1 miles	22
Banfield Place	2.6 miles	19
Gilliam Place	2.6 miles	20
Montgomery Place	3.8 miles	19
Cold Fork	4.2 miles	22
Pettyjohn Place	4.4 miles	22
Hammer Place	4.5 miles	21
Skinner Mill Place	4.5 miles	22

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.

Wikidata item Q122542372

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 1659071. 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.