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Pine Town, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Westwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96137. It stands on Robbers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westwood East quadrangle. It stands 5,089 feet above sea level.

Pine Town within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Pine Town, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pine Town, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Pine Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined61
Natural34
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection36
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen-Modoc Unit2-3 MCKENZIE
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitPINE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection2-2 BORROW
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitWALKER DAM WEST_WOOD 2
5 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitDELWOOD
30 September 2004Naturalunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitLGT #77
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen-Modoc UnitCEDAR #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pine Town: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Diatomite, Iron. 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
Red River Lumber Co.IronProspect
UnknownDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed LocationDiatomiteOccurrence
Gold OccurrenceGoldUnknown
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold
Unnamed LocationGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Lassen 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
Westwood0.8 miles25
Clear Creek3.1 miles25
Robbers Creek4.6 miles25
Coppervale5.4 miles22
Lasco8.2 miles21
Westwood Junction9.1 miles21
Goumaz (historical)10.2 miles22
Norvell12.6 miles25

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 Pine TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195372The 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 1666103. 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.