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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.

Jenner within Sonoma County

Then and now

1943 to 1982

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Jenner, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Jenner, surveyed 1943

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

Population over time

2 figures

Jenner 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.

YearPeople Change
2010136
2020122-14 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

92 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNEIDEAU
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMUNIZ
27 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCASSINI'S CAMPGROUND MONT
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBEACH
24 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSTATE PARK.
23 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitJENNER
22 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMANN
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMEYERS GRADE RD / HWY 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Austin Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationGemstoneOccurrence
Bohan & CanelisSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Willow CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2005Tornado (F1)Jenner$150,000An 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 2015Heavy RainJenner$25,000A 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 2012Debris FlowJenner$15,000Highway 1 was closed north of Jenner due to a significant mud and rock slide blocking the lanes of the road.
February 2017Debris FlowJenner-Mud slide across NB lane and part of SB lane SR1.
February 2017Debris FlowJenner-Rock/mud slide reported at SR1 and Jenner Beach Trail.

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
Bridgehaven1.4 miles16
Duncans Mills3.2 miles16
Camp Thayer4.0 miles16
Sheridan4.4 miles16
Villa Grande5.0 miles16
Carmet5.6 miles17
Monte Rio5.8 miles16
Hale Place5.8 miles18

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 JennerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1686912The 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.