Albion, California
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95410. It stands on Albion Flat. The Survey maps it on the Albion quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 174 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1943 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Albion
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Albion River Bridgelisted 2017
Navarrolisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresAlbion fell from 168 to 153 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 153 | -15 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Albion quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Albion quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
135 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Albion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,309 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined | 53 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern California District | PENNOCK |
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | RIVER |
| 8 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | ALBION |
| 6 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | RIDGE |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | LIGHTNING 72 |
| 29 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | JARDIN |
| 27 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | VISTA |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Mendocino Unit | COMPTCHE UKIAH RD MEN 19 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 5 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Heavy Rain | Albion | $400,000 | Multiple drainage issues near the Navarro River along Highway 1 and a log jam under the bridge requiring removal. |
| February 2025 | Heavy Rain | Albion | $1,100 | West bound lane of Highway 1 closed due to a slide from rainfall. |Lat. 39.23N, Long. -123.77W. |
| January 2026 | Flood | Albion | - | Heavy rain overwhelmed a culvert causing water to flow over the roadway on Highway 128 near Highway 1. Approximately two inches of water was over the roadway in both lanes. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Albion | - | Highway 128 closed from Mile marker 0 to mile marker 12.6 due to flooding, 9 miles west southwest of Comptche, CA. Lat. 39.20N. Long. -123.75W. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Albion | - | State route 128 was closed due to flooding. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Albion | - | Highway 128 was closed near highway 1 due to flooding of the Navarro River. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Albion | - | State Route 128 at State Route 1 was closed due to flooding. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitesboro | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Little River | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Mendocino | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Elk | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Melbourne | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Pine Grove | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Cape Horn | 9.3 miles | 17 | |
| Comptche | 9.8 miles | 14 |
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 Albion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2831919 | The 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 1657904. 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.
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.




