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Gold River, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Rancho Cordova census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95670. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Folsom quadrangle. 7,844 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Gold River 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 Gold River, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Gold River, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Gold River fell from 7,912 to 7,844 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
20107,912
20207,844-68 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 31 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

369 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Gold River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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/undetermined271
Equipment and vehicle use34
Arson/incendiarism21
Smoking18
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitGLORY
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Gold River: 17 past producers, 13 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Platinum, Silver. 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
FolsomGold, Iridium, Osmium, PlatinumPast Producer1848, 1860, 1962
Mississippi Bar PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
American River AreaGold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer
Capital Dredging Co.Gold, Silver, PlatinumPast Producer
Folsom DistrictGold, Silver, PlatinumProducer1849
Natomas Co.Gold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer
FolsomGold, SilverUnknown
Prarie CityGold, SilverPast Producer
Rossi GroundGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working 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
Salsbury (historical)0.9 miles35
Fairoaks Bridge (historical)1.0 miles35
Nimbus1.7 miles31
Citrus1.7 miles35
Fair Oaks1.9 miles35
Easton Place1.9 miles31
Soudan2.3 miles35
Alder Creek2.5 miles31

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 Gold RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q629530The 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 1853391. 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.