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Myers Flat, California

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95553. It stands on Kerr Creek. The Survey maps it on the Myers Flat quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Myers Flat within Humboldt County

Then and now

1921 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Myers Flat, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Myers Flat, surveyed 1921

Population over time

2 figures

Myers Flat fell from 146 to 90 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
2010146
202090-56 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Myers Flat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,272 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined75
Equipment and vehicle use64
Debris and open burning32
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3

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 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitJIM
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSALMON
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitLOG
4 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitFISH
30 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSALMON
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMYERS
3 September 2003Natural11,036 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCANOE
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMIRANDA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt 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 Myers Flat: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tosten QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myers Flat in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2026Thunderstorm WindMyers Flat-Trees down blocking Highway 254 in the Myers Flat area.

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Fruitland3.1 miles11
Miranda3.3 miles15
Burlington3.6 miles12
McCann4.3 miles11
Whitlow5.1 miles11
Phillipsville6.0 miles15
Tanoak (historical)6.3 miles11
Smith (historical)6.4 miles11

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 Myers FlatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6647076The 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 229396. 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.