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Steelhead, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95511. It stands on Steelhead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Seward quadrangle.

Steelhead within Humboldt County

Then and now

1920 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Steelhead, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Steelhead, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Steelhead between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,750 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined39
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitRANCH
6 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitSTOCK
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitPOINT
4 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitANNIVERSARY
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitPRATT
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitPOINT
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSEQUOIA
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPOINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt 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 Steelhead: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Manganese, Silica. 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
Fort Seward MineManganese, SilicaPast Producer1917, 1918
Fort Seward QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Satterly BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
White Woman LimestoneLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Fort SewardManganeseProducer
Fort SewardManganeseProducerBraunite, Rhodochrosite

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steelhead in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 heavy rain. 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 2016Heavy RainSteelhead$60,000A shoulder slip out caused by heavy rain has resulted in cracking into the roadway on Steelhead Road.

Every storm 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
Alderpoint1.8 miles15
Cain Rock3.6 miles15
Fort Seward3.6 miles14
Harris6.0 miles14
Brock Creek (historical)6.5 miles14
Blocksburg7.3 miles12
Phillipsville7.9 miles15
Oak Glen9.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656332. 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.