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McArthur, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96056. It stands on Peacock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fall River Mills quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,310 feet above sea level.

McArthur within Shasta 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 McArthur, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of McArthur, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

McArthur fell from 338 to 334 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
2010338
2020334-4 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of McArthur between 1992 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 September 1992Smokingunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLAKE
1 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLassen National ForestFRANKLIN 2
5 August 2009Natural24 acresShasta-Trinity UnitD05
31 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLassen National ForestFRANKLIN
25 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGTN 47
25 August 1998Debris and open burning40 acresNorthern California DistrictGOMEZ
24 August 2013Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity Unit1-16
23 August 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCASSEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McArthur: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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

Every working recorded in Shasta 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
Pittville3.4 miles21
Fall River Mills3.8 miles21
Glenburn4.9 miles21
Gomez6.3 miles26
Dana9.7 miles26
Spalding Corner11.1 miles25
Cassel12.0 miles28
Cayton12.5 miles26

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 McArthurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2849464The 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 263294. 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.