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Fremont, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Fremont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94538. The Survey maps it on the Niles quadrangle. 230,504 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Fremont within Alameda County

Then and now

1906 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fremont, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Fremont, surveyed 1906

On record in Fremont

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 4 records

Population over time

7 figures

Fremont grew from 43,790 to 230,504 between 1960 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
196043,790
1970100,869+57,079 (+130%)
1980131,945+31,076 (+31%)
1990173,339+41,394 (+31%)
2000203,413+30,074 (+17%)
2010214,089+10,676 (+5%)
2020230,504+16,415 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

414 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 414 fires within 5 miles of Fremont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,334 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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/undetermined292
Arson/incendiarism42
Equipment and vehicle use36
Smoking17
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unit84
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitPIONEER
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitPG&E #3
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Fremont: 31 past producers, 20 producers, 6 occurrences. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, 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
BartlettManganesePast Producer
Mission Lime Marl DepositLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Mission Lime Marl DepositCalciumPast Producer
Morton Salt Co.HaliteProducer
Taylor and PitcherManganese, Salt, SilicaPast Producer
Leslie Salt CoSaltProducer
Newark Evaporation PondsSaltProducer
Bellini QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dumbarton MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dumbarton QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fremont in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindFremont$10,000Large tree crashed into a KFC in Newark causing damage to the property. Wind damage likely from previous night. Fremont RAWS reported gust of 44 mph previous night.
November 2018FloodFremont-Roadway flooding reported at I880 S and Thornton ave off ramp.

Every storm recorded in Alameda 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
Centerville District0.7 miles26
Shinn1.3 miles26
Mattos1.5 miles37
Mallard (historical)1.7 miles26
Eberly1.7 miles26
Irvington District2.0 miles26
Niles Junction2.1 miles26
Niles District2.2 miles26

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 FremontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49220The 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 277521. 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.