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Sattley, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the East Sierra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96124. It stands on Berry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sattley quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,947 feet above sea level.

Sattley within Sierra County

Then and now

1890 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sattley, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Sattley, surveyed 1890

Population over time

2 figures

Sattley fell from 49 to 44 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
201049
202044-5 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Sattley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,357 acres in total. 53 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
Natural53
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresTahoe National ForestDEERWATER
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestWOOD
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestWILD BILL
25 September 1998Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestCHAPMAN
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestHARD
20 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTahoe National ForestCALPINE
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTahoe National ForestCOBURN
18 September 1996Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestBIG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra 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 Sattley: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper. 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
Antelope NeckCopperOccurrenceUnknown
HartmanGoldPast ProducerGold
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Sierra County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sattley in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 5 heavy rain, 2 hail, 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
February 2017FloodSattley$6,800,000Flooding from creeks covered the intersection of Highways 49 and 89 in Sierraville on the afternoon of the 9th. Shallow water was photographed up against buildings at the Sierraville Ranger Station on the morning of the 10th. A washout caused the closure of Highway 49 between Sattley and Yuba Pass. Damage estimates are only for repairs to Highways 49 and 89 based on a CALTRANS report.
March 2018Heavy RainSattley-Trained weather spotter 1 mile south of Sattley reported 5.80 inches of rainfall from 20 March 1630PST to 22 March 1630PST. Before the 48-hour period, there was a foot of snow on the ground, which almost completely melted.
July 2015HailSattley-Hail size was estimated by spotter.
December 2002Heavy RainSattley-Report of 3.37 inches of rain in 18 hours.
November 2002Heavy RainSattley-A spotter reported a storm precipitation total from the morning of November 7 to noon on November 10 of 10.25 inches.
November 2002Heavy RainSattley-Spotter reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 4.41 inches.
July 1999Heavy RainSattley-Hail and heavy rain from thunderstorm produced over an inch of rain in about an hour. Estimated 0.5" to 0.75" hail reported with rain. 40 degree temperature drop in 1 hour.
July 2013HailSattley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sierra 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
Calpine3.5 miles24
Sierraville3.7 miles24
Randolph3.9 miles24
Clark Station Homesites5.0 miles27
Campbell Hot Springs5.1 miles24
Haskell Creek Homesites6.8 miles28
Carvin Creek Homesites8.0 miles28
Bassetts8.5 miles27

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 SattleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6645324The 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 232594. 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.