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Nord, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Chico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95973. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nord quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Nord within Butte County

Then and now

1891 to 1980

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 Nord, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Nord, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Nord fell from 320 to 286 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
2010320
2020286-34 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

415 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 415 fires within 5 miles of Nord between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,157 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined172
Equipment and vehicle use113
Debris and open burning83
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Other causes2

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 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreButte Unit32
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresButte UnitW EAST AVE WEST_CHICO
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitRIVER
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreButte UnitMUD
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife Refuge32NORTH7
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife Refuge32NORTH8
6 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreButte UnitMERIDIAN
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSacramento River National Wildlife Refuge32NORTH6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte 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 Nord: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Calcium, 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
Hamilton City PlantCalciumProducer
Pine Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nord in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2014FloodNord$25,000There were 5 to 11 homes with minor flooding in Nord.
April 2019Heavy RainNord-About 3 of heavy rain reported.

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Anita2.4 miles27
Cana4.6 miles27
Michopdo (historical)6.4 miles28
Chico7.3 miles28
Soto (historical)7.5 miles18
Barber7.9 miles28
Merrills Landing8.1 miles18
Chapmantown8.5 miles28

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 NordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6044856The 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 1659766. 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.