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Pellow Place, 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 96080. It lies near Red Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Riley Ridge quadrangle.

Pellow Place 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 Pellow Place, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pellow Place, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Pellow Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,742 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Firearms and explosives use1
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
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestRILEY 2
3 September 2003Natural1.0 acresTehama-Glenn Unit4-30
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestRILEY RIDGE
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNorthern California District425 RAGLIN RIDGE
29 September 2000Debris and open burning8,284 acresNorthern California DistrictTGU WEIN
26 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitRISHWAIN
21 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestPATTON FIRE
13 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitCASEY,R.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Pellow Place: 12 past producers, 8 occurrences, 6 producers, 6 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Manganese, Copper, Gold. 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
Comet and ArastaGoldPast Producer
Grau MineChromium, IronPast Producer1886, 1942
Elder Creek GroupCopperOccurrence
Elder Creek GroupCopperUnknown
Calaveri-ThurstonManganeseUnknown
CavaleriManganeseOccurrence
Cavaleri ProspectManganeseProspect1918
El SoledadManganeseOccurrence
BaslerChromiumOccurrence
Big Bear ChromeChromiumProspect

Every working 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
Copple Place2.2 miles21
Brown Place4.0 miles19
Lowrey4.8 miles19
Mitchell Place4.8 miles13
Dawson Place5.5 miles13
Watson6.2 miles21
Steuben Place6.2 miles13
Saunders Place6.7 miles19

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 Q122560955The 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 1659364. 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.