Bombay, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sacramento census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95673. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rio Linda quadrangle.

Bombay within Sacramento County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bombay, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Bombay, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 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.

1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Fairoaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1911 USGS Arcade quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Rio Linda quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Rio Linda quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Fair Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Rio Linda quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1975 USGS Rio Linda quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Rio Linda quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

304 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Bombay between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,056 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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	203
Equipment and vehicle use	48
Arson/incendiarism	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	800 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rio Linda	1.7 miles	33
Elverta	2.1 miles	33
Del Paso	2.4 miles	33
Robla	2.5 miles	33
Del Paso Heights	4.7 miles	33
Hagginwood	4.8 miles	33
Gardenland	5.2 miles	32
Ben Ali	5.4 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658103. 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.