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Foothill Farms, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sacramento census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95842. It stands on Cripple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Citrus Heights quadrangle. 35,834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 135 feet above sea level.

Foothill Farms within Sacramento County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Foothill Farms, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Foothill Farms, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Foothill Farms grew from 33,121 to 35,834 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
201033,121
202035,834+2,713 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

939 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 939 fires within 5 miles of Foothill Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,069 acres in total. None started naturally. 76 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/undetermined692
Equipment and vehicle use79
Arson/incendiarism76
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Debris and open burning23
Smoking18
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitCOLIN
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitPFE
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Foothill Farms: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
American River Placer DepositsGoldProducerPlacer
American River Placer DepositsGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foothill Farms in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 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
November 2025FloodFoothill Farms-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along portions of Interstate 80 east near Greenback Lane.
January 2023FloodFoothill Farms-The California Highway Patrol reported 6 -8 inches of water going over the road at Elkhorn Blvd. and Hillsdale Blvd.
March 2019HailFoothill Farms-There were multiple reports by the public of pea to nickle sized accumulating hail.
January 2017Heavy RainFoothill Farms-There were 11.25 measured at Arcade Creek. The duration of the heavy rain event was 72 hours.

Every storm recorded in Sacramento 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
Walerga0.8 miles35
North Highlands1.2 miles35
Antelope2.3 miles35
Sabre City3.0 miles35
Citrus Heights4.2 miles35
Carmichael4.4 miles35
Del Paso Heights4.7 miles33
Fair Oaks4.8 miles35

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 Foothill FarmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1436505The 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 277517. 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.