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Mugginsville, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Fort Jones census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96032. It stands on Emigrant Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenview quadrangle.

Mugginsville within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 2001

The same ground, surveyed 115 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mugginsville, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Mugginsville, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Mugginsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 261 acres in total. 38 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
Debris and open burning54
Natural38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiskiyou UnitSHACKELFORD
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSHACKLEFORD
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDANGEL
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPATTERSON
21 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreSiskiyou UnitLIGHTHILL #1
19 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern California DistrictSNIKTAW
12 September 1995Smokingunder an acreSiskiyou UnitPARTRIDGE
11 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiskiyou UnitGREENVIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 134 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 134 workings within 5 miles of Mugginsville: 59 past producers, 31 occurrences, 30 unknowns, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Silver, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Marble MountainMarble, DimensionOccurrence
Quartz Hill MineCopper, BismuthOccurrence
Reported OccurrenceGemstone, ZirconiumOccurrence
BurtonLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Kidder Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kidder Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meridian Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oro Fino QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Serpa RanchChromiumOccurrence
Tschopp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou 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
Oro Fino1.7 miles29
Greenview2.9 miles29
Cheeseville4.5 miles29
Fort Jones6.4 miles30
Deacon Lee Place6.5 miles33
Etna8.6 miles33
Hooperville (historical)9.3 miles30
Scott Bar11.9 miles18

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 Q122589615The 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 263949. 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.