Wilder Place, California
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96074. It lies near China Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hall Ridge quadrangle.
Then and now
1952 to 1996The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1952 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Paskenta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Hall Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Willows quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Hall Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Wilder Place between 1993 and 2020, burning about 590,247 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 | 5.0 acres | Mendocino National Forest | CONKLIN |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Mendocino National Forest | HAVALON |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Mendocino National Forest | HALL |
| 3 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | 4-4 |
| 21 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | EDJERLY,J |
| 21 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | KELLY,N |
| 14 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino National Forest | SALT93 |
| 16 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Mendocino National Forest | HEIFER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Wilder Place: 8 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Chromium, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohan-Gooday | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Conklin & Williams | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Conklin and Williams | Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite | |
| Bowers Creek | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Elva Manganese Mine | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Elva Mine | Manganese | Prospect | 1918 | |
| Lockwood | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Lockwood Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Logan Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | Rhodochrosite | |
| Logan Claim | Manganese | Occurrence | 1918 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houghton Place | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Whitlock Place | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Paskenta | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Dawson Place | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Peterson Place | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mitchell Place | 10.3 miles | 13 | |
| Pellow Place | 10.4 miles | 13 | |
| Steuben Place | 11.3 miles | 13 |
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 Q122595208 | The 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 1660179. 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.





