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Yankee Hill, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Feather Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95965. It lies near Serpentine Point. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee quadrangle. 260 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,982 feet above sea level.

Yankee Hill within Butte County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yankee Hill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Yankee Hill, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Yankee Hill fell from 333 to 260 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
2010333
2020260-73 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

369 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Yankee Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,757 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined115
Equipment and vehicle use99
Debris and open burning53
Arson/incendiarism48
Natural24
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitFUNES
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorthern California DistrictFLUME
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,333 acresButte UnitPOE
6 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresNorthern California DistrictBTU POE
6 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreButte UnitKUKRAL
5 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use850 acresNorthern California DistrictSADDLE
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButte UnitDETLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 121 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 121 workings within 5 miles of Yankee Hill: 46 occurrences, 43 past producers, 22 unknowns, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, 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 BendCopper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerReplacement
Big BendGold, Copper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Big Bend Marble QuarryLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Bloomer HillGold, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Cherokee MineGold, Platinum, DiamondPast Producer1854
Cherokee and Morris Ravine Plcr MnsAbrasiveUnknown
Park's Ranch MineAntimony, Iron, ChromiumPast Producer1916
Pinkston MineGold, Zinc, Barium-Barite, CopperPast ProducerBarite, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
RainbowGold, ChromiumOccurrenceChromite, Gold
Reported LodeGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Butte 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
Concow1.9 miles29
Parkhill1.9 miles28
Nelson Bar (historical)2.1 miles29
Pipers (historical)2.6 miles28
Deadwood2.7 miles29
Las Plumas (historical)2.8 miles28
Big Bend3.3 miles28
David (historical)3.7 miles28

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 Yankee HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8048762The 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 1656414. 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.