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South Fork, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fort Bragg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95437. It stands on South Fork Noyo River. The Survey maps it on the Noyo Hill quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

South Fork within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Fork, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of South Fork, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

346 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of South Fork between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined139
Debris and open burning73
Equipment and vehicle use43
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony20
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural7
Other causes2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMendocino UnitMCDH FORT_BRAGG
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMendocino UnitFRANKLIN RD FORTB 8
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitODELL INCIDENT
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino UnitLIGNTNING 108
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitMITCHELL
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMendocino UnitMULLEN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitTURNER
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitCOAST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Glenblair2.2 miles14
Redwood Lodge2.2 miles14
Heeser Addition2.4 miles18
Grove3.7 miles14
Noyo4.0 miles18
Fort Bragg4.4 miles18
Cleone5.4 miles18
Whiskey Springs5.4 miles14

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 Q7567258The 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 1659820. 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.