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Esparto, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Esparto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95627. It stands on Lamb Valley Slough. The Survey maps it on the Esparto quadrangle. 3,572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

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Esparto within Yolo County

Then and now

1905 to 1972

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Esparto, surveyed 1972
Topographic sheet of Esparto, surveyed 1905

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Population over time

2 figures

Esparto grew from 3,108 to 3,572 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
20103,108
20203,572+464 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Esparto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,718 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 use60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFORBES #1
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFORBES #2
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitYOLO
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use137 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTWENTY SEVEN
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #3
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #1
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #4
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Esparto: 7 producers, 4 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cache Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cache Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Madison Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Madison Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Off-Channel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rieff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Solano Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stenhens Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esparto in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 flood, 1 flash 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
January 2026FloodEsparto-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on County Road 19 and County Road 87.
February 2025FloodEsparto-CHP reporting roadway flooding along County Road 19 from heavy rain.
February 2024FloodEsparto-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at State Route 16 and County Road 86A in Woodland.
January 2023FloodEsparto-CHP reported roadway flooding on highways 23 and 86A.
February 2019FloodEsparto-Hwy 16 closed from Hwy 89 to Hwy 86A because of flooding.
February 2019FloodEsparto-Caltrans reports that there was a full closure of Highway 16, both eastbound and westbound, due to flooding. (Esparto to Dounty Rd 89/Guys Station).
January 1997Flash FloodEsparto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yolo 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
Country Villa Estates0.3 miles23
Capay2.0 miles23
Madison2.7 miles22
Cottonwood3.4 miles22
Citrona4.7 miles22
Arroz5.5 miles23
Cadenasso6.1 miles20
Jacobs Corner6.7 miles22

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 EspartoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1368039The 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 277508. 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.