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Proberta, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Red Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96035. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gerber quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Proberta within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Proberta, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Proberta, surveyed 1890

Population over time

2 figures

Proberta fell from 267 to 237 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
2010267
2020237-30 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 26 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

599 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 599 fires within 5 miles of Proberta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,438 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined218
Equipment and vehicle use194
Debris and open burning95
Smoking29
Arson/incendiarism27
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 1993Smoking2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitRAWSON
7 September 2014Smokingunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitWORTHINGTON
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitFLORES
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitGUTIERREZ,P
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitROADSIDE
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTehama-Glenn UnitROWEN,C
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitSAN BENITO /TCF
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPG&E #3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Proberta: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clement Avenue Gravel BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Proberta in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 4 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
February 2024FloodProberta-California Highway of Patrol reports roadway flooding at Flores Ave and Ashurst Street.
February 2024FloodProberta-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding of Rawson Road and Flores Avenue.
March 2023FloodProberta-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding near Flores Avenue.
February 2017FloodProberta-Flores Ave. was closed due to flooding.

Every storm 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
Las Flores0.8 miles26
Kiska1.1 miles26
Gerber2.0 miles26
Rawson2.8 miles26
El Camino2.8 miles26
Dairyville4.2 miles26
Tehama4.5 miles26
Los Molinos5.6 miles26

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 ProbertaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7246928The 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 231067. 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.