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Shingletown, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96088. It stands on Shingletown Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Shingletown quadrangle. 2,442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,491 feet above sea level.

Shingletown within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shingletown, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Shingletown, surveyed 1886

On record in Shingletown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Shingletown grew from 2,283 to 2,442 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
20102,283
20202,442+159 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Shingletown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,252 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning56
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitROCK
8 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorthern California DistrictROCK
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitMANTON RD MANTON 5
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity Unitnot named
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use189 acresTehama-Glenn UnitHOUDEK, M
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitMANTON
5 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLINDA
5 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitPOWDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shingletown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite. 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
Stewart & Moore ProspectDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Stewart & Moore ProspectDiatomiteProducer

Every working recorded in Shasta County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shingletown in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 2 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1999WildfireShingletown1 hurtno account filed
December 2018Heavy RainShingletown-There was 1.49 inches of rain over 10 hours in Shingletown.
November 2017Heavy RainShingletown-There was 3.39 of rain reported at Shingletown over 24 hours.
June 2009HailShingletown-Scattered thunderstorms over the area brought hail to Shasta County. A spotter reported hail 1/4 to 3/4 inch covering the ground in the Shingletown area near Highway 44.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Midway4.1 miles28
Inwood4.2 miles28
Redwoods7.6 miles28
Eastman Place8.4 miles29
Wagoner8.9 miles25
Ellis (historical)9.3 miles25
Whitmore9.6 miles29
Beal Place10.4 miles29

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 ShingletownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1866350The 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 1659646. 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.