Livermore, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Livermore-Pleasanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94550. It lies near Oak Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Livermore quadrangle. 87,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1906 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Livermore
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 6 records
Bank of Italylisted 1978
Hagemann Ranch Historic Districtlisted 2008
Livermore Carnegie Library and Parklisted 2011
D. J. Murphy Houselisted 1978
Ravenswoodlisted 1979- Livermore Veterans Administration Hospital, Building 62listed 2020
Population over time
2 figuresLivermore grew from 80,968 to 87,955 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 | 80,968 | |
| 2020 | 87,955 | +6,987 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 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.
- 1906 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1961 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
400 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 400 fires within 5 miles of Livermore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,092 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined | 241 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 87 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | SCHOOL |
| 9 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | CALTRANS |
| 8 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Livermore: 12 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bezley Quarry | Silver | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Buranis Bros. & Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Buranis Bros. & Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Central Maintenance Heavy Equip Shp | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| H.J. Kaiser Co. Radum Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livermore in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Livermore | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Livermore | $50,000 | A small tornado skipped across a residential housing development causing minor damage to houses. A number of trees were toppled. |
| November 2024 | Heavy Rain | Livermore | - | The Livermore COOP station recorded a new daily record rainfall of 0.67 inches for November 22. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Livermore | - | Flooding with road corrosion at Marina Ave and Arroyo Rd. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Livermore | - | Slide blocking at least one lane EB 84 just west of Vallecitos. |
| December 2014 | Flood | Livermore | - | Flooding blocked two right lanes of Westbound Interstate 580 before North Livermore Avenue. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trevarno | 1.2 miles | 26 | |
| Ulmar | 3.1 miles | 26 | |
| East Pleasanton | 3.3 miles | 27 | |
| Elliot (historical) | 3.8 miles | 27 | |
| Greenville (historical) | 4.5 miles | 26 | |
| Remillard (historical) | 4.6 miles | 27 | |
| Radum (historical) | 4.9 miles | 27 | |
| Asco (historical) | 5.6 miles | 27 |
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 Livermore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q138901 | 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 277542. 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.











