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McCloud, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the McCloud-Medicine Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96057. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCloud quadrangle. 945 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,271 feet above sea level.

McCloud within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McCloud, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of McCloud, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

On record in McCloud

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

McCloud fell from 1,101 to 945 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
20101,101
2020945-156 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 35 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of McCloud between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 6 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitMCCLOUD MILL
6 September 2016Smokingunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestSKI
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestMUD
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitHIGHWAY
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTNING #70
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTNING #72
5 September 2003Natural30 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestTHIMBLEBERRY
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestPILGRIM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou 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 McCloud: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cinder PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unidentified Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unidentified Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Hooper1.4 miles35
Signal Butte3.1 miles35
Ash Creek Junction3.4 miles35
Esperanza (historical)4.8 miles35
Wyntoon5.9 miles31
Shasta Springs6.5 miles31
Shasta Retreat7.2 miles31
Mott7.2 miles30

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 McCloudAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306166The 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 277555. 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.