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Richvale, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Biggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95965. The Survey maps it on the Biggs quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Richvale within Butte County

Then and now

1888 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Richvale, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Richvale, surveyed 1888

Population over time

2 figures

Richvale fell from 244 to 234 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
2010244
2020234-10 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Richvale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,308 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined90
Equipment and vehicle use88
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte Unit99
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresButte UnitRICHVALE
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitHANSEN
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionNELSON
30 September 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresButte UnitNELSON
29 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresButte Unit99
29 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitRICHVALE
29 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitLINDBERG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richvale in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 tornado. 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
May 1998Tornado (F0)Richvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Riceton3.2 miles22
Nelson4.2 miles27
Shippee4.4 miles26
Ramada4.6 miles26
Oroville Junction5.1 miles26
Lorraine (historical)5.3 miles22
Blavo5.4 miles26
Biggs5.9 miles22

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 RichvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2112032The 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 231556. 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.

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.