Jenner, California
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95450. It lies in Jenner Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Duncans Mills quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1943 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Jenner
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 1 record
- SS POMONA (Shipwreck)listed 2008
Population over time
2 figuresJenner fell from 136 to 122 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 | 136 | |
| 2020 | 122 | -14 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1943 USGS Duncans Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Duncans Mills quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Duncans Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Duncans Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Bodega Bay quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
92 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Jenner between 1993 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | NEIDEAU |
| 3 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MUNIZ |
| 27 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CASSINI'S CAMPGROUND MONT |
| 25 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BEACH |
| 24 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | STATE PARK. |
| 23 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | JENNER |
| 22 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MANN |
| 21 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MEYERS GRADE RD / HWY 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Jenner: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Creek Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Bohan & Canelis | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Willow Creek | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenner in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 3 debris flow, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Jenner | $150,000 | An F1 tornado ripped through a homestead and portions of three historic barns on the Sonoma Coast - just north of the town of Jenner. One barn was completely destroyed and the two others sustained moderate damage. A glass patio attached to the main house was also completely destroyed. |
| February 2015 | Heavy Rain | Jenner | $25,000 | A fuel tanker crashed in heavy rain on Highway 1 North of Jenner in Sonoma County. The tanker leaked about 9,000 gallons of diesel into the ocean. |
| December 2012 | Debris Flow | Jenner | $15,000 | Highway 1 was closed north of Jenner due to a significant mud and rock slide blocking the lanes of the road. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Jenner | - | Mud slide across NB lane and part of SB lane SR1. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Jenner | - | Rock/mud slide reported at SR1 and Jenner Beach Trail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgehaven | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Duncans Mills | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Camp Thayer | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sheridan | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Villa Grande | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Carmet | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Monte Rio | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Hale Place | 5.8 miles | 18 |
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 Jenner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1686912 | 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 1656100. 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.









