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Weaverville, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Weaverville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96093. It lies near Ten Cent Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Weaverville quadrangle. 3,667 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,051 feet above sea level.

Weaverville within Trinity County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Weaverville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Weaverville, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

On record in Weaverville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Weaverville grew from 3,600 to 3,667 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
20103,600
20203,667+67 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Weaverville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,176 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined52
Equipment and vehicle use40
Natural31
Debris and open burning21
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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 2015Other causesunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitE WEAVER CREEK RD WEAVER
9 September 1998Natural1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictLIGHTNING 36
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use35 acresNorthern California DistrictBROWNS
4 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitGARDEN 3
30 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSHU LITTLE
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictTUCKER
28 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitBROWNS
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING #84

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 100 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 100 workings within 5 miles of Weaverville: 49 past producers, 34 unknowns, 11 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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
Browns Mountain SoapstoneTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
JuneGold, Silver, CopperProducer
Limekiln GulchLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnnamedArsenicOccurrence
UnnamedTinOccurrence
Democrat GroupGold, Lead, ArsenicPast ProducerGold
Gifford MineGold, Lead, ArsenicPast ProducerGalena, Gold
LowdenMolybdenumOccurrenceUnknown
LowdenMolybdenumOccurrenceVein
Arbuckle BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weaverville in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 1 wildfire, 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
August 2001WildfireWeaverville$3,500,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWeaverville$30,000Thunderstorm wind damage 3 miles south of Weaverville. Roads were blocked due to tree damage. Power was out as well. Measured gust from RAWS station was 43 mph. City property was also damaged due to wind driven hail.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Bucktail5.2 miles27
Douglas City5.4 miles26
Junction City5.9 miles21
Lewiston7.3 miles27
Trinity Alps9.1 miles26
Pinewood Cove9.4 miles27
Cedar Stock9.9 miles27
Helena10.3 miles20

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 WeavervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3027750The 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 1652649. 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.