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.
Then and now
1921 to 1979The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresPhillipsville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 140 | |
| 2020 | 124 | -16 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1921 USGS Briceland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Garberville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Garberville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1970 USGS Miranda quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Garberville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 63 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | DEAN |
| 8 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | REDWAY |
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | SALMON |
| 4 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | FISH |
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | MIRANDA |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MM 20.007 HWY 101 HUM PHI |
| 27 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | SALMON |
| 26 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | BEAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Seward Mine | Manganese, Silica | Past Producer | 1917, 1918 | |
| Fort Seward | Manganese | Producer | ||
| Fort Seward | Manganese | Producer | Braunite, Rhodochrosite | |
| Fort Seward Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hance Property | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Tosten Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Vance | Copper | Occurrence | Pyrite |
Storms near this place
4 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Heavy Rain | Phillipsville | $3,000,000 | Two sinks in the roadway around mile post 4 on Highway 254, Avenue of the Giants. |
| February 2017 | Heavy Rain | Phillipsville | $290,000 | Failed culvert near mile post 2 on the Avenue of the Giants. |
| December 2025 | Flood | Phillipsville | - | Hooker Creek Road reported as flooded north of Redway. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Phillipsville | - | Avenue of the Giants at mile-marker 41.2 was closed due to flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miranda | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Brock Creek (historical) | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Oak Glen | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Myers Flat | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Eel Rock | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Fruitland | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Redway | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Smith (historical) | 7.0 miles | 11 |
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 Phillipsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6074322 | 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 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.





