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Mineral, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96063. It lies near Battle Creek Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Mineral quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,918 feet above sea level.

Mineral within Tehama County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mineral, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Mineral, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

On record in Mineral

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

Mineral grew from 123 to 136 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
2010123
2020136+13 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Mineral between 1992 and 2020, burning about 756 acres in total. 32 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
Natural32
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Debris and open burning4
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
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestMORGAN
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestTENT
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestROCKY 2
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCOLD
6 September 2007Smokingunder an acreLassen National ForestTURNER
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestLASSEN
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitWELANDER, T
18 September 2000Smokingunder an acreLassen National ForestMORGAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama 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 Mineral: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Morgan SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lassen Peak QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015HailMineral-Hail as large as nickels fell.

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Mill Creek4.1 miles28
Morgan Springs4.6 miles28
Childs Meadows5.5 miles24
Lyonsville8.0 miles27
Yellowjacket9.0 miles27
Lyman Springs9.5 miles27
Fire Mountain9.8 miles24
Finley Place11.1 miles27

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 MineralAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2177778The 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 1659139. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.