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Redway, California

14 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 95560. It stands on Leggett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garberville quadrangle. 1,247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Redway 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 Redway, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Redway, surveyed 1921

Population over time

2 figures

Redway grew from 1,225 to 1,247 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
20101,225
20201,247+22 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Redway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 458 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined128
Equipment and vehicle use72
Debris and open burning32
Recreation and ceremony21
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDUMP
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitDEAN
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitALDERPOINT
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitRIFLE 2
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitORCHARD 3
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitTOOBY
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitREDWAY
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitREDWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Redway: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Monschke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Randall Gravel BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Garberville ProspectGoldUnknown
UnknownGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redway in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 2 heavy rain. 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
December 2022Heavy RainRedway-Heavy rain caused a landslide that blocked one lane of Redwood Drive between Redway and Garberville.
February 2019Heavy RainRedway-Rock slide at the intersection of Redwood Drive and Willow Avenue.

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
Benbow4.1 miles14
Briceland4.2 miles17
Beall Place6.4 miles14
Phillipsville6.4 miles15
Miranda7.9 miles15
Thorn Junction8.4 miles17
Cooks Valley8.4 miles14
Harris9.1 miles14

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 RedwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2431290The 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 277583. 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.