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.
Then and now
1916 to 1983The 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.


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
Jack London RanchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Hotel Chauvetlisted 1990- Glen Oaks Ranchlisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresGlen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 784 | |
| 2020 | 714 | -70 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Glen Ellen quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
323 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 128 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 116 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | not named |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CAVEDALE |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BRISTOL |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ARNOLD |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HAWKS |
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GROVE |
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BARCELONA |
| 6 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Valley of the Moon | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Nuns Canyon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Perlite | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Location | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Perlite | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Valley of the Moon | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2019 | Debris Flow | Glen Ellen | - | Mud/dirt/rock slide reported at Warm Springs Rd and Arnold Dr. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eldridge | 1.3 miles | 22 | |
| Beltaine (historical) | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Yulupa (historical) | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Felice (historical) | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Madrone (historical) | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Waldrue Heights | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Wildwood (historical) | 2.8 miles | 23 | |
| Agua Caliente | 3.4 miles | 23 |
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 Ellen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1530757 | The 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.









