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Chianti, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cloverdale-Geyserville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95425. It stands on Gill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Geyserville quadrangle.

Chianti within Sonoma County

Then and now

1920 to 1997

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 Chianti, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Chianti, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Chianti between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,699 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined97
Equipment and vehicle use45
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDUTCHER
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRIVER
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDUTCHER
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionKELLY
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCANYON
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDRY CREEK
5 September 2005Natural3.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDUTCHER
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHIATT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Chianti: 10 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Manganese, Magnesite. 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
Barnes MineChromium, IronPast Producer1884
Black RanchCalciumUnknown
Healdsburg LodeCopperUnknown
Unnamed ProspectMercuryOccurrence
BrushMagnesiteOccurrence
Melville RanchMagnesiteUnknown
O'Connell ProspectManganeseOccurrence
O'Connell ProspectManganeseProspect1942
Barnes MineChromiumPast Producer1880, 1884, 1918
Shanks and Copps ClaimChromiumProducerChromite

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chianti in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
January 2019FloodChianti-Roadway flooding reported at 7878 Dry Creek Rd.

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
Omus1.7 miles23
Asti2.4 miles22
Cozzens Corner2.5 miles23
Geyserville2.9 miles23
Nervo4.7 miles23
Cloverdale6.2 miles19
Lytton6.5 miles22
Makahmo (historical)6.6 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122570807The 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 1658267. 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.