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.
Then and now
1886 to 1989The 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.


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
Manzanita Lake Naturalist's Services Historic Districtlisted 2006
Nobles Emigrant Traillisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresShingletown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,283 | |
| 2020 | 2,442 | +159 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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 Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1935 USGS Paynes Creek quadrangle1:96000
- 1941 USGS Mineral quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Manton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Shingletown quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Lake Almanor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
246 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 56 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | ROCK |
| 8 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Northern California District | ROCK |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | MANTON RD MANTON 5 |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 189 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | HOUDEK, M |
| 5 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | MANTON |
| 5 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | LINDA |
| 5 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | POWDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart & Moore Prospect | Diatomite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Stewart & Moore Prospect | Diatomite | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Wildfire | Shingletown | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| December 2018 | Heavy Rain | Shingletown | - | There was 1.49 inches of rain over 10 hours in Shingletown. |
| November 2017 | Heavy Rain | Shingletown | - | There was 3.39 of rain reported at Shingletown over 24 hours. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Shingletown | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 4.1 miles | 28 | |
| Inwood | 4.2 miles | 28 | |
| Redwoods | 7.6 miles | 28 | |
| Eastman Place | 8.4 miles | 29 | |
| Wagoner | 8.9 miles | 25 | |
| Ellis (historical) | 9.3 miles | 25 | |
| Whitmore | 9.6 miles | 29 | |
| Beal Place | 10.4 miles | 29 |
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 Shingletown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1866350 | 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 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.












