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Phillipsville, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95559. It stands on Anderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Miranda quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Phillipsville within Humboldt County

Then and now

1921 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Phillipsville, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Phillipsville, surveyed 1921

Population over time

2 figures

Phillipsville fell from 140 to 124 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
2010140
2020124-16 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Phillipsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Equipment and vehicle use41
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3

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 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitDEAN
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitREDWAY
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSALMON
4 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitFISH
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMIRANDA
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMM 20.007 HWY 101 HUM PHI
27 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSALMON
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitBEAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Phillipsville: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Silica. 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
Fort Seward MineManganese, SilicaPast Producer1917, 1918
Fort SewardManganeseProducer
Fort SewardManganeseProducerBraunite, Rhodochrosite
Fort Seward QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hance PropertyCopperProspect
Tosten QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
VanceCopperOccurrencePyrite

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillipsville in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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
January 2017Heavy RainPhillipsville$3,000,000Two sinks in the roadway around mile post 4 on Highway 254, Avenue of the Giants.
February 2017Heavy RainPhillipsville$290,000Failed culvert near mile post 2 on the Avenue of the Giants.
December 2025FloodPhillipsville-Hooker Creek Road reported as flooded north of Redway.
January 2019FloodPhillipsville-Avenue of the Giants at mile-marker 41.2 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Miranda2.7 miles15
Brock Creek (historical)4.6 miles14
Oak Glen5.6 miles12
Myers Flat6.0 miles11
Eel Rock6.2 miles12
Fruitland6.3 miles11
Redway6.4 miles14
Smith (historical)7.0 miles11

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 PhillipsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6074322The 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 230600. 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.