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Old Station, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96071. The Survey maps it on the Old Station quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,386 feet above sea level.

Old Station within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 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 Station, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Old Station, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Old Station grew from 51 to 64 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
201051
202064+13 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Old Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,522 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 9 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
Natural72
Recreation and ceremony30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks2
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 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestCAMPGROUND
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestSUMMIT
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestVISTA
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen National ForestSPOT
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestTB1
4 September 2019Natural2.1 acresShasta-Trinity UnitSUGARLOAF LN OLDSTA
4 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestBRIDGE
30 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestCAVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
Wilcox Pit & MillPumiceProducer

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Station in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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
August 2017HailOld Station-Hail covered the ground. Some of the hail stones were as large as an inch in diameter.

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
Summertown11.6 miles30
Hat Creek11.6 miles28
Manzanita Lake11.8 miles30
Whittington Place13.5 miles29
Doyles Corner15.5 miles28
Bateman Place16.7 miles29
Viola17.0 miles29
Beal Place17.7 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 Old StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476143The 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 264338. 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.