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Cazadero, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95421. It stands on Saint Elmo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cazadero quadrangle. 298 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Cazadero within Sonoma County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cazadero, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Cazadero, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Cazadero fell from 354 to 298 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
2010354
2020298-56 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Cazadero between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism5

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNEIDEAU
7 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRIVERSIDE DR GUERNEVIL 4
6 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARMSTRONG, CDF TAC 6 2
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSIRI
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARMSTRONG WOODS RD / RIO
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKING /CDF TAC 6
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMUNIZ
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKING

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 Cazadero: 6 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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
Austin Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bohan & CanelisSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed ProspectChromiumUnknown
MadeiraMagnesiteUnknown
Meaker RanchMagnesiteUnknown
Unnamed LocationMagnesiteUnknown
Western Carbonic Acid Gas Co.MagnesiteUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cazadero in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
December 1996Heavy RainCazadero-no account filed

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
Hale Place3.1 miles18
Camp Thayer3.1 miles16
Monte Rosa3.7 miles18
Goat Rock3.8 miles18
Truth Home4.3 miles18
Guernewood Park4.6 miles16
Guernewood4.7 miles16
Montesano4.8 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 CazaderoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476090The 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 220749. 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.