Melbourne, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95460. It lies near Tom Bell Flat. The Survey maps it on the Mathison Peak quadrangle. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Melbourne within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Melbourne, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Melbourne, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1920 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Comptche quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1991 USGS Mathison Peak quadrangle1:24000

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 Melbourne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,404 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	COMPTCHE UKIAH RD COM 12
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	RIDGE
4 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 99
4 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	GREEN
28 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	FLYNN 2
26 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	JSF #3
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Mendocino Unit	COMPTCHE UKIAH RD MEN 19
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	STUOGHTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Comptche	3.4 miles	14
Cameron	5.2 miles	14
Whiskey Springs	5.6 miles	14
Dunlap (historical)	7.0 miles	14
Little River	7.3 miles	16
Albion	7.5 miles	13
Whitesboro	7.7 miles	13
Mendocino	8.1 miles	16

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 Q6811694

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 1659102. 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.