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Chiquita, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Healdsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95448. It stands on Norton Slough. The Survey maps it on the Jimtown quadrangle.

Chiquita within Sonoma County

Then and now

1920 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chiquita, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Chiquita, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Chiquita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,117 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined96
Equipment and vehicle use64
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Smoking3

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionALEXANDER VALLEY RD HEAL
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFELTA
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMILL
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unit101
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPASSALAQUA
5 September 1993Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitACADEMY
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Chiquita: 15 producers, 9 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, 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
GuernevilleMercuryPast Producer
Inman Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Purviance RanchCalciumUnknown
Unnamed ProspectTinOccurrence
Mcpherson RanchChromiumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationChromiumOccurrence
Basalt Rock Co.StoneUnknown
Foppiano QuarryStoneOccurrence
Mill Creek RoadStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chiquita in 1 storm report in 2017: 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 2017FloodChiquita-Flooding at offramp of Hwy 101 and 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
Simi0.3 miles22
Lytton1.7 miles22
Healdsburg1.7 miles22
Del Rio Woods2.0 miles22
Bailhache2.4 miles22
Camp Rose2.7 miles22
Grant3.4 miles22
Jimtown3.6 miles22

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 Q122597756The 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 221079. 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.