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Orangevale, California

31 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 95662. The Survey maps it on the Folsom quadrangle. 35,569 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Orangevale 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 Orangevale, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Orangevale, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Orangevale grew from 33,960 to 35,569 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
201033,960
202035,569+1,609 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 31 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

404 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Orangevale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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/undetermined281
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism32
Smoking20
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Debris and open burning10
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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
7 September 2018Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitGLORY
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Orangevale: 18 past producers, 10 producers, 10 occurrences, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Granite. 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
American River AreaGold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer
FolsomGold, Iridium, Osmium, PlatinumPast Producer1848, 1860, 1962
Folsom DistrictGold, Silver, PlatinumProducer1849
Mississippi Bar PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Folsom PrisonGraniteProducer
Folsom PrisonGranitePast Producer
FolsomGold, SilverUnknown
General UtilityGold, SilverPast Producer
Prarie CityGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangevale in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 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
December 2025FloodOrangevale-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding in a mobile home park near 6900 Almond Ave.
January 2023FloodOrangevale-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on southbound Hazel Ave.

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
Folsom Junction2.4 miles31
Folsom2.6 miles31
Natoma2.9 miles31
Alder Creek3.3 miles31
Fair Oaks3.4 miles35
Nimbus3.5 miles31
Citrus Heights3.5 miles35
Easton Place3.7 miles31

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 OrangevaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2028231The 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 1656200. 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.