Northspur, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Willits census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95490. It stands on North Fork Noyo River. The Survey maps it on the Northspur quadrangle. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Northspur within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Northspur, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Northspur, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1920 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Comptche quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1991 USGS Northspur quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Northspur between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
8 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	ROAD
3 September 2003	Natural	12 acres	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING #13
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 54
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 80
22 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	SPURR
18 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	SKUNK
16 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	JAMES 3
15 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	NORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Irmulco	1.8 miles	14
Alpine	1.9 miles	14
Marble Place	2.7 miles	14
Wanhala	3.3 miles	14
Shake City	4.5 miles	15
Dunlap (historical)	4.9 miles	14
Burbeck	5.8 miles	15
Grove	5.8 miles	14

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 Northspur	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7059766	The 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 1659255. 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.