BlockTancred, California
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Esparto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95606. It lies near Palmer Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Guinda quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1945 to 1972The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1945 USGS Rumsey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Guinda quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1959 USGS Guinda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
169 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Tancred between 1992 and 2018, burning about 93,418 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 use | 85 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | CAPAY |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 300 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | LOOKOUT |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FOREST |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | COUNTY ROAD 59 / COUNTY |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HWY 16 CAPAY |
| 5 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ORCHARD |
| 4 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SIXTEEN |
| 3 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | 75A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Tancred | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7682374 | The 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 1659956. 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.