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Southport Landing, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fortuna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95551. It sits by Table Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Fields Landing quadrangle.

Southport Landing within Humboldt County

Then and now

1944 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Southport Landing, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Southport Landing, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Southport Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony15
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMARSH
9 September 1994Debris and open burning5.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitBLUFF
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitLOLETA
27 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitMORGAN
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCARROLL RD LOLETA
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitLOLETA
23 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreHumboldt Bay National Wildlife RefugeDAVIES
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCANNIBAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Southport Landing: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, 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 BluffClayOccurrence
UnknownVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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
Table Bluff Rancheria0.8 miles16
Hookton2.2 miles16
Fields Landing2.7 miles16
Beatrice3.0 miles16
Table Bluff3.1 miles16
King Salmon3.5 miles16
Humboldt Hill3.8 miles16
Spruce Point4.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656322. 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.