Sage Hen, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madeline Plains census division. It stands on Sage Hen Flat. The Survey maps it on the Madeline quadrangle. It stands 5,548 feet above sea level.

Sage Hen within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sage Hen, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Sage Hen, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1886 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Madeline quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Sage Hen between 1992 and 2017, burning about 9,944 acres in total. 36 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
Natural	36
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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 2005	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	BONES
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Northern California District	BALD
5 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	9,838 acres	Northern California District	LIKELY
4 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	SMALL
4 September 2003	Natural	3.0 acres	Northern California District	TULE
30 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	MITCHELL
3 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	LINE
28 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern California District	MD#3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen 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
Pinnio	2.6 miles	20
Madeline	4.1 miles	20
Brockman	10.2 miles	21
Evans Place	13.6 miles	26
Moran	14.4 miles	21
Termo	16.9 miles	20
Dan Ryan Place	18.2 miles	22
Scotty Place	21.0 miles	22

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 Q7399126

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 1659567. 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.