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Agua Caliente, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sonoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95476. It lies near Hooker Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sonoma quadrangle.

Agua Caliente within Sonoma County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Agua Caliente, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Agua Caliente, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Agua Caliente between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined118
Equipment and vehicle use114
Debris and open burning28
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking8
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAVEDALE
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARNOLD
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSHERMAN
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGROVE
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARCELONA
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Agua Caliente: 18 past producers, 13 producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Aluminum. 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
Reltane DepositClayProspect
Trinity QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Valley of the MoonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Valley of the MoonFlagstonePast Producer
Unnamed LocationAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
FelderDiatomiteProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agua Caliente in 6 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 4 flash flood, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2019Flash FloodAgua Caliente-Stream gauge Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente was in flood stage.
April 2018FloodAgua Caliente-Roadway flooding reported at Brookside Rd and W Agua Caliente Rd.
November 2018FloodAgua Caliente-Roadway flooding reported at Sr12 and Mulford street, water flooding east side lane.
January 2017Flash FloodAgua Caliente-Heavy rain resulted in flash flooding on both the Willow Brook at Penngrove and Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente. The Sonoma Creek stream gauge at Agua Caliente rose above flood stage at 4:45 am on January 20 and remained above flood stage until 8 am that day.
January 2017Flash FloodAgua Caliente-Heavy rain on January 22, 2017, resulted in flooding on the Sonoma Creek. The Sonoma Creek stream gauge at Agua Caliente rose above flood stage at 4:15 AM PST on January 22 and remained above flood stage until 8:30 AM PST.
February 2017Flash FloodAgua Caliente-Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente gauge above flood stage.

Every storm recorded in Sonoma 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
Fetters Hot Springs0.3 miles23
Boyes Hot Springs0.8 miles23
Madrone (historical)1.5 miles22
Sonoma Vista1.5 miles22
Yulupa (historical)1.5 miles22
Verano1.6 miles23
Mission Highlands1.6 miles23
El Verano1.8 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 218015. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.