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North Highlands, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sacramento census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95660. The Survey maps it on the Citrus Heights quadrangle. 49,327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

North Highlands within Sacramento County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Highlands, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Highlands, surveyed 1891

On record in North Highlands

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

North Highlands grew from 42,694 to 49,327 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
201042,694
202049,327+6,633 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 35 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

951 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 951 fires within 5 miles of North Highlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,801 acres in total. None started naturally. 87 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/undetermined695
Arson/incendiarism87
Equipment and vehicle use82
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Debris and open burning22
Smoking17
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitCOLIN
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitPFE
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPFE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Highlands in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023FloodNorth Highlands-A lane was reported flooded by the California Highway Patrol between Elkhorn Blvd. and Sprig Dr. near North Highlands.
January 2023FloodNorth Highlands-CHP reported 1 foot of water in both lanes of Watt Avenue.
January 2023FloodNorth Highlands-CHP reported roadway flooding with water levels halfway up the vehicles.
April 2020FloodNorth Highlands-California Highway Patrol reported 2 feet of water flooding between I80 W and Madison Avenue near North Highlands, CA.
March 2017FloodNorth Highlands-More than half an inch of rain fell within 15 minutes, flooding roadway at Madison Ave. and I80. Lots of freeway spin-outs.
December 2014FloodNorth Highlands-Flooding in North Highlands on 3617 Quinn Way due to leaves in the storm drain. The street was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Sacramento 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
Walerga0.8 miles35
Foothill Farms1.2 miles35
Sabre City2.7 miles35
Antelope2.7 miles35
Rio Linda4.1 miles33
Del Paso Heights4.3 miles33
Robla4.3 miles33
Town and Country Village4.9 miles32

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 North HighlandsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q530920The 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 1656191. 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.

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.