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Rancho Cordova, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Rancho Cordova census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95670. The Survey maps it on the Carmichael quadrangle. 79,332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Rancho Cordova 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 Rancho Cordova, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rancho Cordova, surveyed 1891

On record in Rancho Cordova

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

Rancho Cordova grew from 64,776 to 79,332 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
201064,776
202079,332+14,556 (+22%)

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

323 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Cordova between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,532 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined239
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Smoking15
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
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
7 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2010Missing 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 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Rancho Cordova: 17 past producers, 13 producers, 3 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Del Paso Rock Products Co.Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
FolsomGold, Iridium, Osmium, PlatinumPast Producer1848, 1860, 1962
Haggin Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Natomas Co.Gold, Platinum, SilverPast Producer
Mcgilliuray Construction Co.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
American River Placer DepositsGoldProducerPlacer
American River Placer DepositsGoldOccurrence
Del Paso Rock Products Co.Gold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fair Oaks Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rancho Cordova in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 2022FloodRancho Cordova-Roadway flooding on the onramp to Highway 50 reported at Zinfandel Drive with additional flooding in the lane.
October 2016Heavy RainRancho Cordova-There were 1.17 inches of rain measured, 12 hour total.
March 2005Funnel CloudRancho Cordova-no account filed

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
Routier (historical)1.2 miles35
Mather Field1.6 miles35
Soudan1.7 miles35
Citrus2.3 miles35
Carmichael2.4 miles35
Mayhew3.0 miles35
Salsbury (historical)3.2 miles35
La Riviera3.3 miles35

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 Rancho CordovaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986928The 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 1659466. 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.