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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.

Hidden Valley Lake within Lake County

Then and now

1945 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Hidden Valley Lake, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Hidden Valley Lake, surveyed 1945

Population over time

2 figures

Hidden 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,579
20206,235+656 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

306 since 1992

Regional 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 use113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined102
Debris and open burning28
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Smoking19
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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/undetermined1.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGREEN
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHARTMAN
9 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCRIM
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNOYSE
5 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRAVIN
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKNOWLES LN MIDDLETOWN
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCANYON
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Placer Realty Corp. PropertyGold, SilverPast Producer
ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
UnknownMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed LocationMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectAsbestosUnknown
Coppey ClaimeChromiumUnknown
CopseyChromiumPast Producer
Copsey ClaimsChromiumProducer1917
Emmet JonesChromiumOccurrence
Camp and Yates GraveSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Guenoc (historical)1.4 miles19
Middletown4.9 miles19
Harbin Springs5.3 miles20
Harbin Springs Annex5.6 miles20
Twin Lakes6.1 miles22
Howard Springs7.1 miles20
Lower Lake7.6 miles22
Mirabel (historical)7.8 miles24

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1818463The 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.