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.
Then and now
1891 to 1994The 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.


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
- Sacramento Air Depot Historic Districtlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresNorth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 42,694 | |
| 2020 | 49,327 | +6,633 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 35 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.
- 1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Fairoaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Antelope quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Citrus Heights quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fair Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1967 USGS Citrus Heights quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1975 USGS Citrus Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Citrus Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
951 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 695 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 87 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 82 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | not named |
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | COLIN |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | PFE |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Amador-El Dorado Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | PFE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Flood | North Highlands | - | A lane was reported flooded by the California Highway Patrol between Elkhorn Blvd. and Sprig Dr. near North Highlands. |
| January 2023 | Flood | North Highlands | - | CHP reported 1 foot of water in both lanes of Watt Avenue. |
| January 2023 | Flood | North Highlands | - | CHP reported roadway flooding with water levels halfway up the vehicles. |
| April 2020 | Flood | North Highlands | - | California Highway Patrol reported 2 feet of water flooding between I80 W and Madison Avenue near North Highlands, CA. |
| March 2017 | Flood | North 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 2014 | Flood | North Highlands | - | Flooding in North Highlands on 3617 Quinn Way due to leaves in the storm drain. The street was flooded. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walerga | 0.8 miles | 35 | |
| Foothill Farms | 1.2 miles | 35 | |
| Sabre City | 2.7 miles | 35 | |
| Antelope | 2.7 miles | 35 | |
| Rio Linda | 4.1 miles | 33 | |
| Del Paso Heights | 4.3 miles | 33 | |
| Robla | 4.3 miles | 33 | |
| Town and Country Village | 4.9 miles | 32 |
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 Highlands | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q530920 | 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 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.














