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Nubieber, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Big Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96068. The Survey maps it on the Bieber quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,121 feet above sea level.

Nubieber within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nubieber, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Nubieber, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Nubieber fell from 50 to 19 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
201050
202019-31 (-62%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Nubieber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,839 acres in total. 35 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
Natural35
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 44
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-5 BAGWELL
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection3-9 PIRCEN
4 September 2015Natural1.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitBIG
27 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresLassen-Modoc Unitnot named
23 September 2008Natural1.0 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestBALD
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLTG 86
13 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc Unit3-9 MULLEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Nubieber: 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Cinder PitStoneOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cinder PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nubieber in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flood. 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
February 2017FloodNubieber-Major flooding from the Pit River affected much of Big Valley between the 7th and 14th. The Reno National Weather Service hydrologist toured the area for picture evidence.||NOTE: There was clearly damage to some homes and structures in the Bieber area as evidenced by pictures; however, no storm damage estimates were available to the Storm Data preparer.

Every storm recorded in Lassen 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
Bieber2.7 miles21
Pumpkin Center4.2 miles21
Hot Springs8.4 miles21
Leonard8.5 miles21
Dixie10.5 miles26
Little Valley13.9 miles26
Scotty Place16.5 miles22
Avila Place17.1 miles22

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 NubieberAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6046168The 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 253179. 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.