Colache Town, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Watsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95076. It stands on Salsipuedes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Watsonville West quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
On record in Colache Town
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 within a mile 7 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Mansion House Hotellisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Lettunich Buildinglisted 1992 · 0.5 miles away
Judge Lee Houselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
Madison Houselisted 1984 · 0.5 miles away
Stoesser Block and Annexlisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Godfrey M. Bockius Houselisted 1989 · 0.8 miles away- Watsonville City Plazalisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 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.
- 1912 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1914 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1940 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Watsonville West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Watsonville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
489 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 489 fires within 5 miles of Colache Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,133 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 47 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 | 236 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 104 |
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | FREEDOM BL PAJARO_VALLEY |
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | GREEN |
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | VALLEY |
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | SAN ANDREAS |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Ellicott Slough National Wildlife Refuge | CARSON |
| 9 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | P.G.& E. #17 |
| 8 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | THURWACHTER |
| 8 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PAULSEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watsonville | 0.5 miles | 27 | |
| Freedom | 1.4 miles | 27 | |
| Nuga (historical) | 2.3 miles | 27 | |
| Interlaken | 2.9 miles | 27 | |
| Johnston Corner | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Amesti | 3.4 miles | 27 | |
| Larkin Valley | 3.4 miles | 27 | |
| Ellicott | 4.0 miles | 27 |
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 Q122592131 | 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 1873108. 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.











