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Standish, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Susanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96128. It stands on Fish Slough. The Survey maps it on the Standish quadrangle. It stands 4,049 feet above sea level.

Standish within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Standish, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Standish, surveyed 1886

On record in Standish

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Standish between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,844 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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 use23
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLassen-Modoc Unit1-1 BALD
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresNorthern California DistrictSPRING
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCENTER
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.7 acresNorthern California DistrictLITCHFIELD
19 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresLassen-Modoc UnitSHAFFER
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictBLUE 2
15 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresNorthern California DistrictBYERS
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLassen-Modoc Unit1-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lassen 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 Standish: 3 producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ward Lake QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Standish PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Standish in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
December 2025FloodStandish-Minor flooding of the Susan River in Susanville with some agricultural flooding and water over Cutoff road off Highway 395 near Standish. Water remained there and over Mapes and Capazzoli Roads near Standish and downstream impacts along the Susan continued through the end of the year, though were minor with the water reported to be slow and shallow. This water eventually drains into Honey Lake, which is a dry lake basin otherwise.

Every storm 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
Litchfield2.2 miles21
Edgemont (historical)3.9 miles21
Edgemont4.1 miles21
Belfast5.6 miles21
Leavitt5.9 miles23
Buntingville6.4 miles21
Janesville7.2 miles22
Viewland8.8 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on StandishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7598633The 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 1659856. 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.