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Bodega, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94922. It stands on Nolan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valley Ford quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Bodega 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 Bodega, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Bodega, surveyed 1935

On record in Bodega

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bodega fell from 220 to 211 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
2010220
2020211-9 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Bodega between 1992 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use51
Debris and open burning31
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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 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 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHIGHWAY 1
5 September 2013Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHARBOR
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARNETT
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARNETT
4 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWHITEMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bodega: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, 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
Clark QuarryStoneUnknown
Hagemann Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationCopperUnknown
Unnamed ProspectMercuryUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bodega in 6 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 4 flood, 1 hail, 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
January 2024FloodBodega$10A mudslide was reported on California Highway 1 near Estero Lane.
February 2019Debris FlowBodega-Rock slide blocking entire roadway, Estero Ln at SR 1.
February 2019FloodBodega-Roadway flooded SR 1 and Bay Hill Rd.
April 2018FloodBodega-Roadway flooding reported at Joy Rd and Bodega Highway.
April 2018FloodBodega-Bodega Highway at Salmon Creek closed due to flooding.
February 2018HailBodega-Mainly smaller than pea-sized hail.

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
Valley Ford3.2 miles18
Freestone3.6 miles18
Bodega Bay4.0 miles17
Occidental4.5 miles20
Salmon Creek4.7 miles17
Camp Meeker5.6 miles20
Carmet5.8 miles17
Alliance Redwood6.1 miles20

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 BodegaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4936445The 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 219574. 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.