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Whitesboro, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95410. It stands on Little Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Albion quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Whitesboro within Mendocino County

Then and now

1943 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whitesboro, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Whitesboro, surveyed 1943

On record in Whitesboro

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Whitesboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,310 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictPENNOCK
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitRIVER
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitALBION
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMendocino UnitRIDGE
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino UnitLIGHTNING 72
29 September 1999Smokingunder an acreMendocino UnitJARDIN
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMendocino UnitCOMPTCHE UKIAH RD MEN 19
19 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitHOFFER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Albion0.7 miles13
Little River4.1 miles16
Elk6.3 miles17
Mendocino6.7 miles16
Melbourne7.7 miles14
Cape Horn8.8 miles17
Pine Grove9.7 miles16
Comptche9.8 miles14

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 WhitesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7996235The 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 252831. 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.