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Newtown, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rio Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94571. It stands on Cache Slough. The Survey maps it on the Rio Vista quadrangle.

Newtown within Solano County

Then and now

1910 to 1993

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 Newtown, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Newtown, surveyed 1910

On record in Newtown

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Newtown between 2006 and 2018, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
23 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
31 July 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
17 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Solano 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
Rio Vista1.1 miles21
Toland Landing6.7 miles30
Five Points8.6 miles23
Woodward10.0 miles23
Oxford10.1 miles27
Birds Landing10.4 miles28
Maine Prairie10.5 miles22
Creed10.6 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1666073. 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.