Westend Galatin Place, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It lies near Gleason Peak. The Survey maps it on the Lowrey quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Westend Galatin Place within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westend Galatin Place (historical), surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Westend Galatin Place (historical), surveyed 1890

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1949 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Colyear Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Lowrey quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Westend Galatin Place (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 967 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	4-15
3 September 2003	Natural	3.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	4-26
3 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	4-14 LIGHTING FIRE
3 September 2003	Natural	30 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	4-5 KELLY RD.
28 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	RANCHO 2
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	HUMBOLDT
26 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	SINGH, SUE
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	YUBA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama 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
Lowrey	2.0 miles	19
Saunders Place	2.3 miles	19
Leonard Place (historical)	3.6 miles	19
Brown Place	3.7 miles	19
Montgomery Place	5.2 miles	19
Copple Place	6.0 miles	21
Rancho Tehama Reserve	6.3 miles	19
Banfield Place	6.4 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1666637. 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.