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Mills Orchards, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the West Colusa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95979. The Survey maps it on the Sites quadrangle. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Mills Orchards within Colusa County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mills Orchards, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mills Orchards, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Mills Orchards between 1992 and 2015, burning about 3,749 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural1

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
3 September 2003Natural390 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSITES
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSECOND
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMAXWELL
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMAXWELL
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined49 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPETERSON
20 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMAXWELL
18 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCHISM
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMAXWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colusa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mills Orchards: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Colusa Sandstone Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Mcgilvray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
Mcgilvray QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sandstone Company QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Sites4.0 miles18
Lurline (historical)4.3 miles17
Maxwell4.4 miles15
Cortena6.2 miles17
Delevan6.9 miles15
Delphos8.2 miles17
Devils Elbow9.4 miles12
Leesville9.9 miles14

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 Q6859990The 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 1659136. 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.