Rancho Tehama Reserve, California
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96021. It lies near Government Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Red Bank quadrangle. 1,572 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Then and now
1890 to 1979The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresRancho Tehama Reserve grew from 1,485 to 1,572 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 | 1,485 | |
| 2020 | 1,572 | +87 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 19 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.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1952 USGS Red Bank quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Red Bank quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1979 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
216 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Tehama Reserve between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,746 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 24 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 | 80 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | MASAMI |
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | BECKETT, E. |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | RANCHO 2 |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | RANCHO |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | RANCHO |
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | LITTAU, J. |
| 4 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | STAGECOACH |
| 4 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | MASAMI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rancho Tehama Reserve: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Location | Chromium | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henleyville | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Red Bank | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Westend Galatin Place (historical) | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Flournoy | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Leonard Place (historical) | 6.9 miles | 19 | |
| Lowrey | 8.1 miles | 19 | |
| Saunders Place | 8.1 miles | 19 | |
| Brown Place | 10.0 miles | 19 |
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 Rancho Tehama Reserve | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2263159 | 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 2413663. 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.





