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Healdsburg, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Healdsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95448. It stands on Foss Creek. The Survey maps it on the Healdsburg quadrangle. 11,340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Healdsburg within Sonoma County

Then and now

1920 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Healdsburg, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Healdsburg, surveyed 1920

On record in Healdsburg

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

2 figures

Healdsburg grew from 11,254 to 11,340 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
201011,254
202011,340+86 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Healdsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined114
Equipment and vehicle use74
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionALEXANDER VALLEY RD HEAL
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFELTA
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMILL
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unit101
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPASSALAQUA
5 September 1993Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitACADEMY
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Healdsburg: 16 producers, 11 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 1 past producer. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Manganese. 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
GuernevilleMercuryPast Producer
Inman Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Purviance RanchCalciumUnknown
Unnamed ProspectTinOccurrence
Mcpherson RanchChromiumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationChromiumOccurrence
White-O-RanchManganeseOccurrence
White-O-Ranch ProspectManganeseOccurrence1942
Basalt Rock Co.StoneUnknown
Brooks QuarryStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Healdsburg in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 3 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow, 1 hail. 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
December 2014Flash FloodHealdsburg$5,000Flash flood swept SUV off road and into Dry Creek.
December 2014FloodHealdsburg$1,000Foss Creek over banks and flooding Vine and Grove. Law enforcement closed roads.
December 2014FloodHealdsburg$1,000Law enforcement reports numerous road closures due to flooding in Healdsburg. Intersections included Piper at East, Center at Grant, Piper at Healdsburg, and Center at Mitchell.
March 2020HailHealdsburg-Pea-sized hail reported in Geyserville.
January 2019Debris FlowHealdsburg-Rock slide in roadway covering road.
February 2019FloodHealdsburg-Roadway flooding on SB Hwy 101 off ramp at Mill Street.

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
Bailhache0.9 miles22
Chiquita1.7 miles22
Del Rio Woods1.8 miles22
Grant1.8 miles22
Camp Rose2.0 miles22
Simi2.1 miles22
Lytton3.4 miles22
Jimtown4.7 miles22

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 HealdsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q852598The 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 277530. 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.