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Millers Landing, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Colusa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95645. It lies near Howells Point Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Kirkville quadrangle. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Millers Landing within Colusa County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millers Landing, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Millers Landing, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Millers Landing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
30 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
2 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
19 July 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution25 acresCentral California DistrictBATH
27 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colusa 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
Boyers Landing0.3 miles21
Fraziers Landing3.5 miles22
Grand Island7.7 miles22
Graino8.5 miles24
Grimes8.6 miles24
Harrington9.4 miles21
College City9.6 miles16
Prize (historical)11.6 miles16

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 Q6859354The 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 1659132. 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.