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Clearlake, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Clearlake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95422. It lies near Schoolteacher Hill. The Survey maps it on the Clearlake Highlands quadrangle. 16,685 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,417 feet above sea level.

Clearlake within Lake County

Then and now

1945 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clearlake, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Clearlake, surveyed 1945

Population over time

2 figures

Clearlake grew from 15,250 to 16,685 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
201015,250
202016,685+1,435 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

466 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 466 fires within 5 miles of Clearlake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,517 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 64 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/undetermined199
Equipment and vehicle use82
Debris and open burning75
Arson/incendiarism64
Smoking13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural6
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unit4TH ST CLEARLAKE_CITY
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMEADOWOOD SNF CLEARLAKE_C
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGREEN AV CLEARLAKE_CITY
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPOINT
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMADISON DR CLEARLAKE_CIT
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionVISTA
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMORGAN
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSUNRISE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Clearlake: 11 producers, 9 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Big Borax LakeStoneOccurrenceObsidian
Borax LakeBoron-Borates, Halite, Sodium, CobaltPast Producer1856, 1864, 1874
Clear Lake-Sulphur BankMercuryProducer
Sulphur Bank MineSulfur, MercuryPast Producer1865, 1873
UnknownStone, DimensionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Christianson TractCopperOccurrenceVein
Christienson TractCopperUnknown
H and GManganeseProspect
H and GManganeseUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Clearlake Highlands0.9 miles21
Clearlake Park1.4 miles21
Lower Lake3.4 miles22
Eastlake (historical)4.1 miles21
Clear Lake Keys4.7 miles21
Clear Lake Riviera5.0 miles21
Twin Lakes5.1 miles22
Clearlake Oaks5.3 miles21

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 ClearlakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q376246The 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 1657240. 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.