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Roseland, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95407. It stands on Matanzas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa quadrangle. 6,325 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 135 feet above sea level.

Roseland within Sonoma County

Then and now

1916 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roseland, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Roseland, surveyed 1916

Compare 1916 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Roseland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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/undetermined237
Smoking69
Equipment and vehicle use61
Arson/incendiarism45
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRUSSELL
7 September 2009Missing 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
6 September 2008Missing 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 Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Roseland: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
StirlingIronUnknown
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Z and G Quarry and MillStone, DimensionUnknown
Petaluma Hill RoadStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Zamaroni QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
O ConnorStoneProducer
O ConnorStonePast Producer
Onsrud Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Onsrud Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Parker Hill RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roseland in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 2019FloodRoseland1 killedSanta Rosa Fire Department reported that a body was found in Santa Rosa Creek west of the Pierson St Bridge https://patch.com/california/sonomavalley/body-recovered-santa-rosa-creek.
December 2025FloodRoseland-One to two feet of water blocked the number 1 and 2 lanes of the connector from eastbound California Highway 12 to southbound Highway 101.
February 2019FloodRoseland-Roadway flooding at Hall Rd and Park Royal Ave.

Every storm recorded in Sonoma 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
South Santa Rosa1.2 miles23
Santa Rosa1.5 miles23
Bellevue1.6 miles23
McCauley (historical)1.8 miles20
Monroe2.4 miles20
Montgomery Village2.6 miles23
Riccas Corner3.2 miles20
Llano3.6 miles20

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 RoselandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2166903The 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 1799481. 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.