Rinckel, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Sacramento Canyon census division. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake McCloud quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rinckel within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rinckel (historical), surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Rinckel (historical), surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 31 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.

1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
1935 USGS Dunsmuir quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Shoeinhorse Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lake McCloud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Lake McCloud quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Rinckel (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 26 started naturally. None was 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
Natural	26
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2

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
5 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	CREEK II
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	LIGHTNING 68
24 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity Unit	not named
14 September 2013	Natural	1.5 acres	Siskiyou Unit	OAK 2
10 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	TAMARACK
10 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	SHOEINHORSE
5 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	RESERVOIR
23 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	RESERVOIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Big Bend	11.7 miles	25
Castle Crag	11.7 miles	31
Dirigo	12.5 miles	31
Castella	12.9 miles	31
Sweetbriar	13.0 miles	31
Conant	13.3 miles	32
Kelly (historical)	14.9 miles	26
Sims	15.4 miles	32

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.

Wikidata item Q122546032

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 1659511. 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.