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.
Then and now
1921 to 1998The 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.


Compare 1921 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresCazadero 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 354 | |
| 2020 | 298 | -56 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Skaggs quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Cazadero quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Cazadero quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Cazadero quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Cazadero quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
142 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 63 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
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 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | NEIDEAU |
| 7 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | RIVERSIDE DR GUERNEVIL 4 |
| 6 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ARMSTRONG, CDF TAC 6 2 |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SIRI |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ARMSTRONG WOODS RD / RIO |
| 5 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | KING /CDF TAC 6 |
| 3 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MUNIZ |
| 28 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | KING |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Creek Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bohan & Canelis | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Chromium | Unknown | ||
| Madeira | Magnesite | Unknown | ||
| Meaker Ranch | Magnesite | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Magnesite | Unknown | ||
| Western Carbonic Acid Gas Co. | Magnesite | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1996 | Heavy Rain | Cazadero | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hale Place | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Camp Thayer | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Monte Rosa | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Goat Rock | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Truth Home | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Guernewood Park | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Guernewood | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Montesano | 4.8 miles | 16 |
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 Cazadero | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3476090 | The 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.










