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Oak Run, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96069. It lies near Oak Flat. The Survey maps it on the Oak Run quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,617 feet above sea level.

Oak Run within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oak Run, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Oak Run, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

On record in Oak Run

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Oak Run between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,696 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use37
Debris and open burning25
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitOAK
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitOAK 2
8 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitMILL
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use150 acresShasta-Trinity UnitCREEK 6
4 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitBACKBONE
30 September 2000Smokingunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitFERN #2
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitRIDGE
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use48 acresShasta-Trinity UnitROSY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Oak Run: 7 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Zinc, Mercury. 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
AfterthoughtCopper, Gold, Silver, LeadPast Producer1862, 1873, 1952
AsherZinc, LeadOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite
AsherLead, ZincProspect
Clover Creek Copper LeaseCopper, IronOccurrenceChalcopyrite
CortezGold, CopperProducerGold
DonkeyCopper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, GoldPast ProducerUnderground
Emerald Glen RanchStoneProspect
FreemontGold, SilverPast Producer
Clover CreekMercuryUnknown
Clover Creek MineMercuryOccurrence1898

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Run in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
March 2023FloodOak Run-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding near Whitmore Road.

Every storm recorded in Shasta 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
Osborne2.3 miles26
Wilkinson3.9 miles26
Ingot4.1 miles26
Furnaceville (historical)4.5 miles26
Fern4.9 miles29
Pawnee5.0 miles25
Smith5.8 miles25
Fitzpatrick (historical)6.6 miles29

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 Oak RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7073722The 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 1659274. 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.