Wyntoon, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the McCloud-Medicine Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96057. It stands on Angel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake McCloud quadrangle.

Wyntoon within Siskiyou County

Then and now

1886 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wyntoon, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Wyntoon, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 31 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.

1886 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1894 USGS Shasta quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
1935 USGS Dunsmuir quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Shoeinhorse Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Mount Shasta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lake McCloud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Lake McCloud quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Wyntoon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 22 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
29 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	PILGRIM
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	LIGHTNING 68
2 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	FOWLERS
2 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Shasta-Trinity National Forest	FOWLERS
14 September 2013	Natural	1.5 acres	Siskiyou Unit	OAK 2
13 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	FALLS
5 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	RESERVOIR
26 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siskiyou Unit	FOWLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wyntoon: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unidentified Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Siskiyou 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
Esperanza (historical)	5.0 miles	35
Ash Creek Junction	5.3 miles	35
McCloud	5.9 miles	35
Hooper	7.4 miles	35
Ash Creek Station (historical)	8.3 miles	26
Signal Butte	9.0 miles	35
Swobe	9.9 miles	26
Kinyon	10.6 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660206. 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.