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.
Then and now
1886 to 1998The 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.


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
McCloudlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresMcCloud 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,101 | |
| 2020 | 945 | -156 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 35 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
- 1935 USGS Dunsmuir quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS McCloud quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Mc Cloud quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
110 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | MCCLOUD MILL |
| 6 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | SKI |
| 6 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | MUD |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | HIGHWAY |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | LIGHTNING #70 |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Siskiyou Unit | LIGHTNING #72 |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | 30 acres | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | THIMBLEBERRY |
| 4 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | PILGRIM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinder Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unidentified Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unidentified Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hooper | 1.4 miles | 35 | |
| Signal Butte | 3.1 miles | 35 | |
| Ash Creek Junction | 3.4 miles | 35 | |
| Esperanza (historical) | 4.8 miles | 35 | |
| Wyntoon | 5.9 miles | 31 | |
| Shasta Springs | 6.5 miles | 31 | |
| Shasta Retreat | 7.2 miles | 31 | |
| Mott | 7.2 miles | 30 |
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 McCloud | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3306166 | 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 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.










