Burnt Ranch ( Chimariko: ''č’utamtače'') a

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(CDP) in Trinity County,

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. It has a school and a post office. Its ZIP Code is 95527, and it is in

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. Its elevation is . Its population is 250 as of the 2020 census, down from 281 from the 2010 census.

History

In early times, the area was inhabited by people speaking a form of the

Chimariko language Chimariko is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken in northern Trinity County, California, by the inhabitants of several independent communities. While the total area claimed by these communities was remarkably small, Golla (2011:87–89) b ...

, which was spoken along the Trinity River from the mouth of South Fork at Salyer as far upstream as Big Bar; their principal village was at present-day Burnt Ranch. Pre-contact, the Native American people of this area all spoke Chimariko as well as a dialect of the Hupa language. This is the Tsnungwe dialect of Hupa. Burnt Ranch is so named because a party of Indian raiders burned down the majority of the town in 1863. On 2 August 1858, J.W. Winslet's party of 16 men from Burnt Ranch were ambushed by the

Whilkut The Whilkut (variants: ''Whiylqit, Hwil'-kut, Hoilkut, Hoilkut-hoi'') also known as "(Upper) Redwood Creek Indians" or "Mad River Indians" were a Pacific Coast Athabaskan tribe speaking a dialect similar to the Hupa to the northeast and Chilula ...

in the Bald Hills along a trail to the

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villages, killing one man and wounding Winslet; the party retreated to Pardee's Ranch.Fight with Indians - One Man Killed and One Wounded
, Weekly Humboldt Times, August 7, 1858: p. 2, col. 3.Bledsoe, Anthony Jennings, Indian wars of the Northwest: A California sketch, Bacon and Co., San Francisco, 1885, pp. 233-237 Burnt Ranch was destroyed in the spring of 1863 by an Indian raiding party. :"On the Trinity, for many miles above its confluence with the Klamath, there were indications of a general uprising of discontented tribes. At Cedar Flat a trading post was attacked and destroyed, the keeper and another man escaping to Burnt Ranch. The family at Burnt Ranch was removed to a safer locality, and none too soon; one day thereafter the Indians arrived and set fire to everything that would burn." Burnt Ranch became a temporary camp from May to November 1864, used by

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while moving Indians to Fort Humboldt.Historic California Posts: Camp Burnt Ranch, California State Military Department, The California Military Museum
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Geography

According to the

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, the CDP covers an area of , 99.99% of it land and 0.01% of it water. The town is 15.7 miles southeast of Willow Creek on State Route

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Climate

This region experiences hot and dry summers. According to the

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system, Burnt Ranch has a

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, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.

Demographics

Amesti first appeared as a

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in the 2010 U.S. Census.

2020 census

The 2020 United States census reported that Burnt Ranch had a population of 250. The population density was . The racial makeup of Burnt Ranch was 193 (77.2%)

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, 0 (0.0%)

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, 11 (4.4%) Native American, 2 (0.8%) Asian, 1 (0.4%)

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, 3 (1.2%) from other races, and 40 (16.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 19 persons (7.6%). The whole population lived in households. There were 118 households, out of which 14 (11.9%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 47 (39.8%) were married-couple households, 12 (10.2%) were

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couple households, 13 (11.0%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 46 (39.0%) had a male householder with no partner present. 39 households (33.1%) were one person, and 6 (5.1%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.12. There were 66

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(55.9% of all households). The age distribution was 39 people (15.6%) under the age of 18, 11 people (4.4%) aged 18 to 24, 69 people (27.6%) aged 25 to 44, 69 people (27.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 62 people (24.8%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 48.0years. For every 100 females, there were 135.8 males. There were 135 housing units at an average density of , of which 118 (87.4%) were occupied. Of these, 87 (73.7%) were owner-occupied, and 31 (26.3%) were occupied by renters.

Politics

In the

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, Burnt Ranch is in , and . Federally, Burnt Ranch is in .

References

{{authority control Settlements formerly in Klamath County, California Census-designated places in Trinity County, California Census-designated places in California