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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.

Livermore within Alameda County

Then and now

1906 to 1989

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Livermore, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Livermore, surveyed 1906

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

Population over time

2 figures

Livermore 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.

YearPeople Change
201080,968
202087,955+6,987 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

400 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined241
Equipment and vehicle use87
Arson/incendiarism34
Smoking20
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSCHOOL
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitCALTRANS
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bezley QuarrySilverProducer
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Buranis Bros. & Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Buranis Bros. & Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Central Maintenance Heavy Equip ShpSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H.J. Kaiser Co. Radum PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Flash FloodLivermore$250,000no account filed
April 1994Tornado (F0)Livermore$50,000A small tornado skipped across a residential housing development causing minor damage to houses. A number of trees were toppled.
November 2024Heavy RainLivermore-The Livermore COOP station recorded a new daily record rainfall of 0.67 inches for November 22.
February 2019FloodLivermore-Flooding with road corrosion at Marina Ave and Arroyo Rd.
February 2017Debris FlowLivermore-Slide blocking at least one lane EB 84 just west of Vallecitos.
December 2014FloodLivermore-Flooding blocked two right lanes of Westbound Interstate 580 before North Livermore Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Alameda 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
Trevarno1.2 miles26
Ulmar3.1 miles26
East Pleasanton3.3 miles27
Elliot (historical)3.8 miles27
Greenville (historical)4.5 miles26
Remillard (historical)4.6 miles27
Radum (historical)4.9 miles27
Asco (historical)5.6 miles27

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 LivermoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q138901The 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.