Guinda, California
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Esparto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95637. It stands on Hamilton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Guinda quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1945 to 1972The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresGuinda fell from 254 to 245 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 | 254 | |
| 2020 | 245 | -9 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1945 USGS Rumsey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Guinda quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1959 USGS Guinda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
145 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Guinda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94,120 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 70 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FOREST |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | COUNTY ROAD 59 / COUNTY |
| 5 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ORCHARD |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | SALT |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 29 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | THURMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Guinda: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Mercury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Mine | Mercury | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guinda in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 wildfire. The reports record 6 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1999 | Wildfire | Guinda | 6 hurt | no account filed |
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.
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 Guinda | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458628 | 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 224711. 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.








