Tanoak, California

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Garberville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95554. It stands on Cameron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Myers Flat quadrangle. It stands 207 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Tanoak within Humboldt County

Then and now

1921 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tanoak (historical), surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Tanoak (historical), surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1921 USGS Dyerville quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Weott quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Weott quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1969 USGS Myers Flat quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Garberville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Tanoak (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
8 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	JIM
8 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	COLLINS
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	140 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	COLONY
4 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	EEL
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	PERROT
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	BRIDGEVILLE
27 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	FRUITLAND
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Humboldt-Del Norte Unit	FRUIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smith (historical)	0.7 miles	11
Whitlow	1.4 miles	11
Eel Rock	2.8 miles	12
Oak Glen	2.9 miles	12
Fruitland	3.2 miles	11
McCann	3.4 miles	11
Brock Creek (historical)	5.6 miles	14
Myers Flat	6.3 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q7683719

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 1665551. 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.