Yellowjacket, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It stands on McCarty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barkley Mountain quadrangle.

Yellowjacket within Tehama 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 Yellowjacket, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet of Yellowjacket, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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 Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
1935 USGS Paynes Creek quadrangle1:96000
1941 USGS Mineral quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Butte Meadows quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Lake Almanor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Barkley Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Barkley Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Yellowjacket between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62,587 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 1 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	24
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
3 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Butte Unit	LOMO
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	1-2
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60,390 acres	Lassen National Forest	GUN 2
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	LIGHTNING 1-1
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	TINCHER,W
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	RIM FIRE
18 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tehama-Glenn Unit	SHEEP TAC 3
16 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Tehama-Glenn Unit	LIGHTNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama 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
Summerville (historical)	3.1 miles	27
Savercool Place	3.5 miles	27
Lyonsville	5.4 miles	27
Peligreen Place	5.6 miles	28
Avery Place	6.2 miles	28
Lyman Springs	6.3 miles	27
Finley Place	6.5 miles	27
Dantuma Place	6.8 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 269353. 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.