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Whittington Place, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Central Shasta census division. The Survey maps it on the Jacks Backbone quadrangle. It stands 4,990 feet above sea level.

Whittington Place within Shasta County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

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 Whittington Place, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Whittington Place, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Whittington Place between 1993 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING# 23
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestWILD
19 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestEVERETT
12 September 2001Naturalunder an acreLassen National ForestCOW
12 September 2001Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitLIGHTNING #1-1
12 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLassen National ForestEVERETTE
7 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity Unit3-9
7 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShasta-Trinity Unit3-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta 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
Bateman Place6.6 miles29
Beal Place8.5 miles29
Burney12.0 miles28
Hat Creek12.2 miles28
Summertown12.9 miles30
Viola13.2 miles29
Doyles Corner13.3 miles28
Fern13.3 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.

Wikidata item Q28924463The 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 1660176. 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.