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Glen Ellen, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sonoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95442. It stands on Calabazas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glen Ellen quadrangle. 714 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Glen Ellen within Sonoma County

Then and now

1916 to 1983

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 Glen Ellen, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Glen Ellen, surveyed 1916

On record in Glen Ellen

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glen Ellen fell from 784 to 714 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
2010784
2020714-70 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Glen Ellen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57,094 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined128
Equipment and vehicle use116
Debris and open burning26
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural2
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAVEDALE
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBRISTOL
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitARNOLD
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHAWKS
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 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Glen Ellen: 13 past producers, 11 producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Clay. 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
Trinity QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Valley of the MoonFlagstonePast Producer
Nuns Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
Valley of the MoonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Ellen in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 debris flow. 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 2019Debris FlowGlen Ellen-Mud/dirt/rock slide reported at Warm Springs Rd and Arnold Dr.

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
Eldridge1.3 miles22
Beltaine (historical)1.7 miles23
Yulupa (historical)1.8 miles22
Felice (historical)1.9 miles23
Madrone (historical)1.9 miles22
Waldrue Heights2.0 miles22
Wildwood (historical)2.8 miles23
Agua Caliente3.4 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 Glen EllenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1530757The 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 277524. 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.