Montgomery Place, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lowrey quadrangle.

Montgomery Place within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Montgomery Place, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Montgomery Place, surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1949 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Lowrey quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Montgomery Place between 1993 and 2019, burning about 11,961 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	4
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
5 September 2019	Natural	8,838 acres	Northern California District	RED BANK
3 September 2003	Natural	30 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	4-5 KELLY RD.
3 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Northern California District	TGU LGT 37
3 September 2003	Natural	3.0 acres	Northern California District	TGU LGT 48
2 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	BECHELLI, D.
13 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	CASEY,R.
11 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	LOWERY #1
11 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	3RD LOWERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Montgomery Place: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
	Basaler	Copper	Prospect

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Banfield Place	1.7 miles	19
Saunders Place	2.9 miles	19
Gilliam Place	3.5 miles	20
Mary Ellen Place	3.8 miles	21
Irish Place (historical)	3.8 miles	20
Leonard Place (historical)	3.8 miles	19
Brown Place	4.3 miles	19
Lowrey	5.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1666626. 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.