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.
Then and now
1945 to 1993The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresClearlake 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,250 | |
| 2020 | 16,685 | +1,435 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1945 USGS Lower Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Clearlake Highlands quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Lower Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Clearlake Highlands quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Clearlake Highlands quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
466 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 199 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 82 |
| Debris and open burning | 75 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 64 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | 4TH ST CLEARLAKE_CITY |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MEADOWOOD SNF CLEARLAKE_C |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GREEN AV CLEARLAKE_CITY |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | POINT |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MADISON DR CLEARLAKE_CIT |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | VISTA |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.7 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MORGAN |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | SUNRISE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Borax Lake | Stone | Occurrence | Obsidian | |
| Borax Lake | Boron-Borates, Halite, Sodium, Cobalt | Past Producer | 1856, 1864, 1874 | |
| Clear Lake-Sulphur Bank | Mercury | Producer | ||
| Sulphur Bank Mine | Sulfur, Mercury | Past Producer | 1865, 1873 | |
| Unknown | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Christianson Tract | Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Christienson Tract | Copper | Unknown | ||
| H and G | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| H and G | Manganese | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearlake Highlands | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Clearlake Park | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Lower Lake | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Eastlake (historical) | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Clear Lake Keys | 4.7 miles | 21 | |
| Clear Lake Riviera | 5.0 miles | 21 | |
| Twin Lakes | 5.1 miles | 22 | |
| Clearlake Oaks | 5.3 miles | 21 |
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 Clearlake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q376246 | 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 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.










