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Cordelia, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fairfield-Suisun City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94534. It stands on Green Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cordelia quadrangle.

Cordelia within Solano County

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cordelia, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Cordelia, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Cordelia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use43
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSPURS
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use66 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCATTLE
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitROCKVILLE PARK
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionAMERICAN
3 September 2009Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHIDDENBROOKE
29 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPURS
28 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSTONEFIELD 3
27 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitJAMISON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cordelia: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury. 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
VallejoMercuryProducer
Cordelia QuarryStoneProducer
Nelson Hill QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Solano County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cordelia in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 2 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
December 2024FloodCordelia-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding from rain along eastbound Interstate 80 and Cordelia Offramp.
March 2023FloodCordelia-Flooding near I-680 and Gold Hill Road offramp south of Cordelia is effecting southbound traffic on I-680.
April 2000HailCordelia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Solano 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
Cordelia Junction0.5 miles35
Thomasson1.6 miles34
Rockville2.4 miles34
Danielson2.5 miles34
Willota2.8 miles34
Russell2.9 miles34
Subeet3.1 miles34
Green Valley3.2 miles25

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 CordeliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8350956The 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 1655922. 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.