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Shippee, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Oroville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95965. It stands on Little Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shippee quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Shippee within Butte County

Then and now

1891 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shippee, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Shippee, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

363 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of Shippee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,142 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 40 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
Equipment and vehicle use135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined134
Arson/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning26
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking9
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte UnitFEATHER
8 September 1995Smoking1.0 acresButte UnitEXOTIC
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButte Unit99
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreButte UnitNELSON 2
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresButte Unit99
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresButte UnitGOLF
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresButte UnitRICHVALE
4 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresButte UnitPOPLAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Shippee: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay. 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
Table Mountain Clay Products CoClayUnknown
UnknownGoldOccurrence
Central Sand and Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dry Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oroville North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stearns Sand and Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shippee in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 4 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
November 2024FloodShippee-California Highway Patrol reported flooding across the northbound lanes near the intersection of State Route 99 and Richvale Highway.
November 2024FloodShippee-California Highway Patrol reported that the field next to the roadway flooded into the northbound lanes of State Route 99 at Nelson Shippee Road.
November 2024FloodShippee-California Highway Patrol reported the closure of State Route 99 and State Route 162 due to flooding from heavy rain.
January 2017FloodShippee-Cottonwood Road from Table Mountain to Highway 99 closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Ramada1.6 miles26
Oroville Junction2.9 miles26
Blavo3.2 miles26
Nelson4.2 miles27
Richvale4.4 miles22
Wicks Corner4.6 miles29
Lorraine (historical)5.3 miles22
Kramm5.6 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.

Wikidata item Q7498052The 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 1659649. 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.