BlockPayne Place, California
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dewitt Peak quadrangle.
Then and now
1886 to 1995The 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.
Compare 1886 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1935 USGS Paynes Creek quadrangle1:96000
- 1941 USGS Mineral quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Panther Spring quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Dewitt Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Lake Almanor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Dewitt Peak quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Payne Place between 1992 and 2017, burning about 34 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Lassen National Forest | BLACK |
| 23 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | HOG |
| 16 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | WOODWARD |
| 8 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lassen National Forest | FINLEY |
| 28 July 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | CORNER |
| 25 July 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | PLUM |
| 2 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | ISHI |
| 17 July 1992 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Lassen National Forest | MIDDLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meyers Place | 3.3 miles | 27 | |
| McClure Place | 3.6 miles | 27 | |
| Wells Place | 3.8 miles | 28 | |
| McKenzie Place | 4.4 miles | 27 | |
| Facht Place | 4.6 miles | 28 | |
| Wade Place | 4.8 miles | 27 | |
| Peligreen Place | 5.0 miles | 28 | |
| Pape Place | 5.8 miles | 28 |
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 Q122544034 | The 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 1656211. 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.