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Carmet, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94923. It lies near Marshall Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Bodega Head quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Carmet within Sonoma County

Then and now

1942 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carmet, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Carmet, surveyed 1942

Population over time

2 figures

Carmet grew from 47 to 55 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
201047
202055+8 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Carmet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
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
5 September 2013Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHARBOR
27 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBAY HILL
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBEACH
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBEAN AV / OCEAN VIEW AV
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCOLEMAN VALLEY RD / HWY 1
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDORAN
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 1 / HWY 116
17 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRUDINOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carmet: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hagemann Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Willow CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmet in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2010Heavy RainCarmet-Heavy rain caused a small debris slide to occur along State Highway 1 just north of Jenner.

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
Salmon Creek1.8 miles17
Bodega Bay3.2 miles17
Bridgehaven4.3 miles16
Jenner5.6 miles16
Duncans Mills5.6 miles16
Bodega5.8 miles18
Tyrone6.5 miles16
Sheridan6.6 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.

Wikipedia article on CarmetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5043650The 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 1659706. 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.