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Alliance Redwood, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95465. It stands on Grab Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camp Meeker quadrangle.

Alliance Redwood within Sonoma County

Then and now

1935 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alliance Redwood, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Alliance Redwood, surveyed 1935

Compare 1935 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

364 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 364 fires within 5 miles of Alliance Redwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined143
Equipment and vehicle use80
Debris and open burning58
Recreation and ceremony22
Arson/incendiarism17
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural4
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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionVISTA
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitONE SIXTEEN
7 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRIVERSIDE DR GUERNEVIL 4
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSIRI
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGRATON
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGREEN #3
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSAFEWAY GUERNEVILLE
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWAGNON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Alliance Redwood: 13 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium, Stone, Copper. 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
Altamont Copper GroupMercury, CopperOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGarnetUnknown
Raineys Ready-MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Siri & King Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
AltamontCopperOccurrence
AltamontCopper, MercuryUnknown
Unnamed LocationMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed LocationCopperUnknown
Unnamed ProspectMercuryUnknown
Burl Howell QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working 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
Camp Meeker0.9 miles20
Tyrone1.8 miles16
Occidental2.2 miles20
Monte Rio2.9 miles16
Northwood3.3 miles16
Northwood Lodge3.3 miles20
Northwood Heights3.5 miles20
Edendale3.9 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q17298419The 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 1657916. 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.