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Bloomfield, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sebastopol census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94952. The Survey maps it on the Two Rock quadrangle. 338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Bloomfield within Sonoma County

Then and now

1935 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloomfield, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Bloomfield, surveyed 1935

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomfield fell from 345 to 338 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.

YearPeople Change
2010345
2020338-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHWY 1 JENNER
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVALLEY 2
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARNETT
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY, CDF TAC 6 4
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unit101
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGREEN MILL
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARNETT
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARNETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bloomfield: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Quartz. 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
Unnamed LocationQuartzProspect
Unnamed ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Bloomfield Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Martinoni QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationGoldProducer
Unnamed LocationGoldPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 4 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
December 2024FloodBloomfield-Flooding caused the closure of Valley Ford Road between Gericke Road and California Route 1.
February 2019Debris FlowBloomfield-Mud and rocks blocking NB lanes of Gericke Rd and Valley Ford Rd.
February 2019FloodBloomfield-Vehicle stuck in flood water, Bloomfield Rd and Valley Ford Rd.
April 2018FloodBloomfield-Roadway flooding at Valley Ford Road and Bloomfield Road.
February 2017FloodBloomfield-Car stuck in flooded area. Valley Ford Rd and Bloomfield Rd.

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
Knowles Corner3.3 miles17
Valley Ford3.9 miles18
Turner4.3 miles17
Orchard4.4 miles17
Two Rock4.5 miles17
Hessel4.6 miles17
Roblar4.9 miles17
Cadwell5.0 miles17

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 BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4928216The 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 1658081. 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.