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Navarro, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mendocino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95466. It stands on Surrender Creek. The Survey maps it on the Navarro quadrangle. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Navarro within Mendocino County

Then and now

1943 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Navarro, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Navarro, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Navarro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,840 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMendocino UnitNASH
3 September 2003Natural2.0 acresMendocino UnitMINI MOUSE
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use22 acresMendocino UnitLIGHTNING 81
24 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMendocino UnitPHILO
22 September 2003Natural250 acresMendocino UnitMOUSE II
18 September 2001Smoking1.0 acresMendocino UnitBAILEY
17 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection5-1
8 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMendocino UnitHOLMES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Navarro: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
O'Brien Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Mendocino County

Storms near this place

5 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Navarro in 5 storm reports between 2024 and 2026: 4 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2026FloodNavarro-Highway 128 closed due to flooding from the Navarro River and its tributaries. The river reached official flood stage around 10 pm on the 5th for a few hours.
February 2025FloodNavarro-State route 128 closed at Flynn Creek Gate due to flooding.|Lat. 39.16N, Long. -123.58W.
March 2024Heavy RainNavarro-Law Enforcement reported a Landslide 9 miles WSW of Comptche, CA blocking one lane of HWY 128. LAT. 39.20N, LONG. -123.75W.
December 2024FloodNavarro-Highway 128 flooded along the North Fort of the Navarro River. Two feet of water reported on the roadway with multiple vehicles stranded.
December 2024FloodNavarro-Highway 128 completely flooded near Clark Road in the Navarro area.

Every storm 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
Reilly Heights3.2 miles15
Old Bailey Place3.3 miles12
Cape Horn5.1 miles17
Philbrick Mill5.4 miles12
Hendy Grove6.6 miles12
Philo7.9 miles12
Comptche8.2 miles14
Cameron8.3 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 NavarroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6982159The 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 229429. 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.