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El Verano, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sonoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95476. It stands on Agua Caliente Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sonoma quadrangle. 3,867 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

El Verano within Sonoma County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of El Verano, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of El Verano, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

El Verano fell from 4,123 to 3,867 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
20104,123
20203,867-256 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of El Verano between 1992 and 2020, burning about 489 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined122
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking6
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAVEDALE
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARNOLD
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGROVE
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARCELONA
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of El Verano: 16 past producers, 10 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Diatomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Stage Gulch Quarry , Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
FelderDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
FelderDiatomitePast Producer
Mt Pisgah VineyardDiatomiteUnknown
Cannon QuarryStoneProducer
Cannon QuarryStonePast Producer
FelderStoneProducer
QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Verano in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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
February 2024FloodEl Verano-Roadway flooding was reported at Arnold Drive and Boyes Blvd.
February 2019Debris FlowEl Verano-Mud/dirt/rock completely blocking one lane along Grove St and White Alder.
January 2017Flash FloodEl Verano-Heavy rain resulted in flooding on the Sonoma Creek. The Sonoma Creek stream gauge at Agua Caliente rose above flood stage at 7:30 pm PST on January 18 and remained above flood stage until 10:30 pm PST.

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
Verano0.9 miles23
Boyes Hot Springs1.2 miles23
Sonoma Vista1.3 miles22
Fetters Hot Springs1.6 miles23
Sonoma1.8 miles23
Agua Caliente1.8 miles23
Temelec2.1 miles23
Four Corners2.2 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 El VeranoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1847895The 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 277505. 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.