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Kenwood, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sonoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95452. It lies near Adobe Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kenwood quadrangle. 852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Kenwood within Sonoma County

Then and now

1916 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kenwood, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Kenwood, surveyed 1916

Population over time

2 figures

Kenwood fell from 1,028 to 852 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
20101,028
2020852-176 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Kenwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57,000 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined86
Equipment and vehicle use82
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBRISTOL
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHAWKS
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHIGHWAY 2
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTRINITY
4 September 1998Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWINERY
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLONDON CDF TAC6
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitENTERPRISE RD / BENNETT V
28 September 1999Debris and open burning145 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLOGODA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Kenwood: 14 past producers, 12 producers, 6 occurrences, 6 prospects. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Perlite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury. 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
Bacon and Kenney ProspectManganeseProspect
Mount Hood MineChromiumUnknown
StirlingIronOccurrenceHematite
Trinity QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Valley of the MoonFlagstonePast Producer
Unnamed LocationAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomitePast Producer
Reltane DepositClayProspect

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenwood in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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
February 2019FloodKenwood-Westbound SR-12 at Hoff Rd flooded.
March 2018Debris FlowKenwood-Rock slide in Adobe Canyon near Sugar Loaf Park.
January 2017Flash FloodKenwood-Stream gage on Sonoma Creek at Kenwood exceeded flood stage between 7 and 8 am PST.

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
Wildwood (historical)0.8 miles23
Lawndale1.4 miles23
Felice (historical)1.7 miles23
Los Guilicos2.1 miles23
Beltaine (historical)2.2 miles23
Waldrue Heights3.5 miles22
Oakmont3.6 miles23
Glen Ellen3.6 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 KenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476166The 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 226527. 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.