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Rocklin, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Rocklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95677. It stands on Clover Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rocklin quadrangle. 71,601 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Rocklin within Placer 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 Rocklin, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rocklin, surveyed 1891

On record in Rocklin

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

16 figures

Rocklin grew from 542 to 71,601 between 1870 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
1870542
1880624+82 (+15%)
18901,056+432 (+69%)
19001,050-6 (-1%)
19101,026-24 (-2%)
1920643-383 (-37%)
1930724+81 (+13%)
1940795+71 (+10%)
19501,155+360 (+45%)
19601,495+340 (+29%)
19703,039+1,544 (+103%)
19807,344+4,305 (+142%)
199019,033+11,689 (+159%)
200036,330+17,297 (+91%)
201056,974+20,644 (+57%)
202071,601+14,627 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

771 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 771 fires within 5 miles of Rocklin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,910 acres in total. None started naturally. 68 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/undetermined380
Equipment and vehicle use182
Arson/incendiarism68
Smoking68
Debris and open burning38
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2018Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer Unitnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitWHITNEY
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitBICHEL
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitHOG
7 September 2018Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Placer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Rocklin: 24 unknowns, 23 occurrences, 13 producers, 12 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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
American Olean Colfax MineClay, StoneProducer
Reported OccurrenceQuartzOccurrenceSand
Union Granite Co.Stone, DimensionProducer
Loomis QuarryStone, GraniteProducer
Rocklin QuarriesStone, GraniteProducer
Unidentified QuarriesStone, GraniteOccurrence
Loomis QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, StoneUnknown
Rocklin QuarryGranite, StoneProducer
Unnamed QuarriesStoneUnknown
Collet PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Placer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocklin in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 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
February 2025FloodRocklin-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding from heavy rain of the westbound lanes on Sunset Boulevard.
January 2017Heavy RainRocklin-There was 2.00 of rainfall estimated over 24 hours. Clover Valley Creek rose to the top of its banks and extended into portions of Clover Valley Park.
May 2015Heavy RainRocklin-Heavy rain fell for 20 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Placer 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
Loomis3.1 miles28
Roseville3.8 miles29
Granite Bay4.3 miles28
Hidden Valley4.3 miles28
Whitney4.8 miles29
Penryn5.5 miles28
Placer One5.6 miles29
Bickford Ranch5.6 miles28

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 RocklinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984599The 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 277586. 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.