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Fort Bragg, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Bragg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95437. It stands on Pudding Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bragg quadrangle. 6,983 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Fort Bragg within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fort Bragg, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Fort Bragg, surveyed 1920

On record in Fort Bragg

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Bragg fell from 7,273 to 6,983 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
20107,273
20206,983-290 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

347 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 347 fires within 5 miles of Fort Bragg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined135
Debris and open burning82
Equipment and vehicle use41
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Recreation and ceremony20
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural7
Other causes2

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/undetermined1.0 acresMendocino UnitMCDH FORT_BRAGG
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMendocino UnitFRANKLIN RD FORTB 8
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitODELL INCIDENT
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino UnitLIGNTNING 108
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitMITCHELL
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMendocino UnitMULLEN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitTURNER
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitCOAST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Bragg: 1 producer. All of them 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
Camp 5 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mendocino 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
Noyo1.2 miles18
Heeser Addition2.8 miles18
Cleone3.2 miles18
Glenblair4.3 miles14
South Fork4.4 miles14
Caspar5.7 miles16
Redwood Lodge6.1 miles14
Inglenook6.3 miles17

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 Fort BraggAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q579180The 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 1656027. 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.