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Tulelake, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tulelake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96134. The Survey maps it on the Tulelake quadrangle. 902 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,035 feet above sea level.

Tulelake within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tulelake, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Tulelake, surveyed 1886

On record in Tulelake

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Tulelake fell from 1,010 to 902 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,010
2020902-108 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Tulelake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 264 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTule Lake National Wildlife RefugeJEEP
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTule Lake National Wildlife RefugeMDF ASST#1
5 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTule Lake National Wildlife RefugeFIELD
22 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTule Lake National Wildlife RefugeELVIS
16 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTule Lake National Wildlife RefugePOWERLINE
16 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National ForestHAWK
29 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTule Lake National Wildlife RefugeMDF-742
6 July 2007Naturalunder an acreModoc National ForestTULE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tulelake: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Siskiyou County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tulelake in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindTulelake-See below.
June 1997HailTulelake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Siskiyou 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
Hatfield3.6 miles24
Ainsworth Corner5.3 miles24
Chalk Bank Landing9.3 miles24
Fleener Place9.6 miles24
Canby Cross10.1 miles24
Laird Landing14.3 miles26
Dorris23.4 miles24
Somerset28.1 miles24

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 TulelakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2453325The 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 1660040. 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.