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Mendocino, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95460. It stands on Big River. The Survey maps it on the Mendocino quadrangle. 932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Mendocino within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mendocino, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Mendocino, surveyed 1920

On record in Mendocino

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mendocino grew from 894 to 932 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
2010894
2020932+38 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Mendocino between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined87
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use24
Recreation and ceremony21
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Other causes2

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictPENNOCK
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMendocino UnitTUPPER
7 September 2009Smoking1.0 acresMendocino UnitLAKE
7 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCASPAR
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMendocino UnitHEADLANDS
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMendocino UnitSTATE PARKS #3
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMendocino UnitWOODLANDS CDF MENDO
6 September 2003Natural1.0 acresMendocino UnitLIGHTNING103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino 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
Little River2.6 miles16
Pine Grove3.0 miles16
Caspar3.9 miles16
Albion6.0 miles13
Whitesboro6.7 miles13
Heeser Addition7.6 miles18
Whiskey Springs8.0 miles14
Melbourne8.1 miles14

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 MendocinoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1920378The 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 1659106. 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.