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Old Hulbert Place, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Alturas census division. It lies near Cottonwood Flat. The Survey maps it on the Happy Camp Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,626 feet above sea level.

Old Hulbert Place within Modoc 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 Old Hulbert Place, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Old Hulbert Place, surveyed 1886

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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Old Hulbert Place between 1992 and 2018, burning about 39,475 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural85
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestSTONE
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestGOCH
30 September 1994Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestVERNON
21 September 2008Naturalunder an acreModoc National Forest607
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestBUSHY
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestSTONE
7 August 2006Natural2.0 acresModoc National Forest597
6 August 2008Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestHANGING ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Old Hulbert Place: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bushey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cottonwood Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Modoc 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
Ambrose5.8 miles22
Boles7.0 miles24
Hackamore8.7 miles24
Canby9.7 miles22
Hollenbeck (historical)12.3 miles21
Scarface13.0 miles21
Demuth13.3 miles21
Meares14.8 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q7084249The 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 1659292. 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.