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Cherryland, California

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hayward census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94541. It lies near Maderia Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hayward quadrangle. 15,808 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Cherryland within Alameda County

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cherryland, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Cherryland, surveyed 1899

On record in Cherryland

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Cherryland grew from 14,728 to 15,808 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
201014,728
202015,808+1,080 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 36 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

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Cherryland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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/undetermined187
Smoking28
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cherryland: 6 producers, 4 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Halite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
American Salt Co.HaliteProducer
Chabot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
East Bay Excavation CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oliver Bros. Salt Co.HaliteProducer
La Vista Quarry and MillStoneProducer
La Vista Quarry and MillStoneProducer
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherryland in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flood. 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 2024FloodCherryland-Flooding was reported in a lane on Interstate 238.

Every storm recorded in Alameda 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
San Lorenzo1.1 miles36
Ashland1.2 miles36
Castro Valley1.4 miles36
Hayward1.4 miles36
Lorenzo Station1.7 miles34
Russell City2.4 miles34
Robert (historical)2.8 miles34
Mount Eden3.0 miles36

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 CherrylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q473016The 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 1867005. 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.