Hidden Valley Lake, California
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Middletown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95467. It stands on Gallagher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Middletown quadrangle. 6,235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1945 to 1998The same ground, surveyed 53 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 figuresHidden Valley Lake grew from 5,579 to 6,235 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 | 5,579 | |
| 2020 | 6,235 | +656 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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 Lower Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Lower Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
306 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Hidden Valley Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30,605 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 113 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 102 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Smoking | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | GREEN |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HARTMAN |
| 9 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CRIM |
| 7 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | NOYSE |
| 5 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | RAVIN |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | KNOWLES LN MIDDLETOWN |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CANYON |
| 3 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CANYON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Hidden Valley Lake: 7 producers, 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Mercury, Asbestos. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placer Realty Corp. Property | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Prospect | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Asbestos | Unknown | ||
| Coppey Claime | Chromium | Unknown | ||
| Copsey | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Copsey Claims | Chromium | Producer | 1917 | |
| Emmet Jones | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Camp and Yates Grave | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guenoc (historical) | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Middletown | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Harbin Springs | 5.3 miles | 20 | |
| Harbin Springs Annex | 5.6 miles | 20 | |
| Twin Lakes | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Howard Springs | 7.1 miles | 20 | |
| Lower Lake | 7.6 miles | 22 | |
| Mirabel (historical) | 7.8 miles | 24 |
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 Hidden Valley Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1818463 | 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 1766196. 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.










