Madison, California
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Esparto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95653. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle. 581 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1907 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresMadison grew from 503 to 581 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 | 503 | |
| 2020 | 581 | +78 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1907 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1916 USGS Jacobs Corner quadrangle1:31680
- 1941 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Woodland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1992 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Madison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,076 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FORBES #1 |
| 9 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FORBES #2 |
| 6 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | YOLO |
| 4 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 137 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | TWENTY SEVEN |
| 20 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | COUNTY ROAD 85B / COUNTY |
| 20 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | DAHM |
| 14 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | CANAL |
| 13 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HARRISON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Madison: 8 producers, 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cache Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cache Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Madison Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Madison Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Off-Channel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rieff Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison in 9 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 9 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2019 | Flood | Madison | $2,000 | Highway 16 had east and west bound lanes flooded at County Road 89 near Guys Corner. A vehicle was submerged in flood waters. Flooding was first reported at 11 am. |
| February 2024 | Flood | Madison | - | California Highway Patrol reported closure of a 100-200 yard stretch of Highway 505 northbound in Woodland between Interstate 5 and Highway 16 due to flooding from heavy rain. |
| February 2024 | Flood | Madison | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding and an incident involving a car hydroplaning. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Madison | - | Caltrans District 3 reported closure of Highway 16 between Madison and Esparto due to flooding. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Madison | - | The California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along southbound Interstate 505 offramp at County Road 19. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Madison | - | Between 5 and 6 am a vide of someone driving across flooded roads was posted on social media. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Madison | - | Roadway flooding reported at SR16 pff ramp at I505S in Madison, with full closure for north and south bound I505. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Madison | - | Caltrans reported that in Yolo County, I-505 was closed in both directions from I-5 to SR16 due to flooding. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Madison | - | Half of vehicle submerged in water at County Rd 89 /CR23. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood | 1.5 miles | 22 | |
| Esparto | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Country Villa Estates | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Citrona | 3.2 miles | 22 | |
| Jacobs Corner | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| Arroz | 4.0 miles | 23 | |
| Capay | 4.7 miles | 23 | |
| Norton | 6.4 miles | 23 |
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 Madison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458655 | 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 227916. 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.










