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Whitehawk, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Graeagle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96106. It stands on Big Boulder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle. 144 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,501 feet above sea level.

Whitehawk within Plumas County

Then and now

1891 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whitehawk, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Whitehawk, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Whitehawk grew from 113 to 144 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
2010113
2020144+31 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Whitehawk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 12 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
Natural59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestCARMAN
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestC
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestVISTA
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acrePlumas National ForestROAD
25 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePlumas National ForestKELLY
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestCARMAN
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlumas National ForestVISTA
19 September 1993Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Plumas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Whitehawk: 10 past producers, 10 prospects, 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver. 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
Big Mohawk MineCopperUnknown
Feather River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Frazer QueenGold, SilverPast Producer
Frazier Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Willow Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
AdelaideGoldPast ProducerGold
AdelaideGoldUnknown
AgateGoldProspect
AntelopeGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Plumas 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
Valley Ranch1.4 miles28
Clio2.2 miles28
Mohawk Vista4.4 miles29
Graeagle4.8 miles29
Dentens (historical)4.8 miles29
Mabie5.3 miles29
Delaney (historical)5.4 miles29
Blairsden5.4 miles29

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 WhitehawkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q778197The 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 1853421. 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.