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Rio Vista Junction, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rio Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94585. The Survey maps it on the Birds Landing quadrangle.

Rio Vista Junction within Solano County

Then and now

1907 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rio Vista Junction, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Rio Vista Junction, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rio Vista Junction in 2007, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1

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
16 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rio Vista Junction: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Denverton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Explosive Technology PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Potrero PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Solano 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
Solano City (historical)1.4 miles28
Denverton1.7 miles31
Creed2.8 miles28
Meins Landing4.9 miles31
Birds Landing5.1 miles28
Travis Field5.5 miles26
Molena5.5 miles31
Olcott5.6 miles22

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 Rio Vista JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65043958The 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 252778. 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.