Somerset, California

The same ground, surveyed 115 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 2001

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.

• 1886 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1892 USGS Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Dorris quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Sheep Mountain quadrangle1:24000
• 2001 USGS Sheep Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Somerset between 1992 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 18 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Macdoel
• Mount Hebron
• Dorris
• Klamath River
• Laird Landing
• Lakin

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Somerset: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Dimension, Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659813. 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.