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Paskenta, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96074. It stands on Digger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paskenta quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 726 feet above sea level.

Paskenta within Tehama County

Then and now

1952 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Paskenta, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Paskenta, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Paskenta fell from 112 to 110 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
2010112
2020110-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Paskenta between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,745 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitPASKENTA IC TAC 12
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn Unit4-4
3 September 2003Natural1.0 acresTehama-Glenn Unit4-3
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California District47
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 46
21 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitEDJERLY,J
21 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitKELLY,N
19 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitLINNET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Paskenta: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Chromium. 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
Cohan-GoodayGold, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed LocationChromiumOccurrence
Comet and ArastaGoldPast Producer
Kerling Pit #35Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paskenta Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paskenta in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 wildfire. 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 1999WildfirePaskenta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tehama 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
Wilder Place6.1 miles12
Flournoy6.3 miles12
Pellow Place7.7 miles13
Whitlock Place8.8 miles12
Houghton Place8.9 miles12
Lowrey8.9 miles19
Dawson Place9.0 miles13
Copple Place9.6 miles21

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 PaskentaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476029The 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 230388. 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.