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Shumway, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Madeline Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96130. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the West of Snowstorm Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,079 feet above sea level.

Shumway within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shumway, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Shumway, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Shumway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 37 started naturally. None was 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
Natural37
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
4 September 2019Natural1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictR2 HANSEN
14 September 2011Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictHORSE
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictHORSE
8 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern California DistrictDECK
23 August 2017Natural1.4 acresNorthern California DistrictR11 BIRTHDAY
23 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictHORSEY
23 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictROAD
23 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorthern California DistrictBRANHAM

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Horse Lake4.9 miles19
Crest6.7 miles20
Ravendale9.7 miles20
Termo11.8 miles20
Stones Landing12.4 miles21
Karlo13.7 miles19
Moran14.1 miles21
The Crossing14.6 miles21

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 Q7505001The 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 1659657. 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.