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Rosewood, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosewood quadrangle.

Rosewood within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rosewood, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Rosewood, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 20 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Rosewood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTehama-Glenn UnitBAKER
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitVESTAL IC / TAC 3
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTehama-Glenn Unit3-1
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTehama-Glenn Unit3-2
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitHWY 36 W BAKER 2
21 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitLALAGUNA,L
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitPEARS, T
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresTehama-Glenn Unit1-MAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rosewood: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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
Graves Pit #23Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cevage and DodsonGoldUnknown
Roaring River DredgeGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosewood in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
April 2019FloodRosewood-The east bound lane of Highway 36 was reported by the CHP to be flooded.

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
Walker Place (historical)3.9 miles20
Hercraff Place4.3 miles20
Hatfield Place (historical)4.5 miles20
Pete Hoff Place4.6 miles20
Fowler Place4.7 miles20
Swain Place6.4 miles20
McCartney Place6.6 miles20
Alford Place6.8 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 RosewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7368772The 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 252784. 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.