Surprise Station, California

The same ground, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1993

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 Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Davis Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Cedarville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Surprise Station quadrangle1:24000
• 1993 USGS Surprise Station quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Surprise Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,372 acres in total. 33 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.

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:

• Daphnedale Park
• Alturas
• California Pines
• Fletcher (historical)

Every fire recorded in Modoc County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Surprise Station: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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 Modoc County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252811. 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.