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Cloverdale, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cloverdale-Geyserville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95425. It stands on Cloverdale Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cloverdale quadrangle. 8,996 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Cloverdale within Sonoma County

Then and now

1938 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cloverdale, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Cloverdale, surveyed 1938

On record in Cloverdale

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cloverdale grew from 8,618 to 8,996 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
20108,618
20208,996+378 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Cloverdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,360 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/undetermined145
Equipment and vehicle use54
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1
Other causes1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLILE LN CLOVERDALE
9 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 101 N/ HWY 128
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSHEAR
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 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSKUNK
7 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNACO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Cloverdale: 11 producers, 8 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 5 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Magnesite, 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
Barnes MineChromium, IronPast Producer1884
Barnes MineChromiumPast Producer1880, 1884, 1918
Unnamed LocationChromiumUnknown
CooperManganeseProducer
HaleManganeseProspect
Shaw and MathewsManganeseProducerPsilomelane
Shaw and Matthews MineManganesePast Producer1918
Wright ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Wright ProspectManganeseProspect1942
Albertz Ranch DepositMagnesiteUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverdale in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2020HailCloverdale-Quarter inch hail reported in Cloverdale.
February 2017FloodCloverdale-Flooding US 101N and S Cloverdale Blvd.
December 2014Heavy RainCloverdale-Rainfall totals of 4.5 inches so far, with 2.5 inches since midnight.

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
Makahmo (historical)1.0 miles19
Preston2.1 miles19
Alderglen Springs2.8 miles19
Asti3.8 miles22
Chianti6.2 miles23
Omus7.9 miles23
Cozzens Corner8.0 miles23
Geyserville9.1 miles23

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 CloverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928609The 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 277489. 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.