Rancho Murieta, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sloughhouse census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95683. It stands on Arkansas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Folsom SE quadrangle. 5,903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 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.


Population over time
2 figuresRancho Murieta grew from 5,488 to 5,903 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 | 5,488 | |
| 2020 | 5,903 | +415 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 27 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
- 1941 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Folsom quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Folsom SE quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
212 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Murieta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,706 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 31 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 | 92 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 66 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 1999 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | IONE |
| 8 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | MICHIGAN |
| 7 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | SIXTEEN |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | INDIO |
| 6 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | DILLARD |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | MICHIGAN |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 172 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | LATROBE |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 171 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Rancho Murieta: 13 producers, 11 occurrences, 10 past producers, 2 unknowns. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agara | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Michigan Bar | Gold, Platinum, Iridium, Osmium | Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Michigan Bar | Gold, PGE | Unknown | ||
| Michigan Bar District | Gold, Silver, PGE | Past Producer | 1850 | |
| Mountain Gold Dredging Co. | Gold, Silver | Producer | Placer | |
| Clay Pits | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Lower Bradford Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Mcdonnell Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Michigan Bar Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Van Vleck Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Oak | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Michigan Bar (historical) | 3.0 miles | 25 | |
| Cosumne | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Walltown | 5.0 miles | 27 | |
| Sloughhouse | 5.3 miles | 22 | |
| Malby Crossing | 7.8 miles | 27 | |
| White Rock | 8.6 miles | 29 | |
| Glenborough | 10.0 miles | 31 |
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 Murieta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2313069 | 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 1820537. 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.










