BlockRumsey, California
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Esparto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95679. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rumsey quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1945 to 1972The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Rumsey
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
Rumsey Town Halllisted 1972
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1945 USGS Rumsey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Guinda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rumsey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
136 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Rumsey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 55,472 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | MORGAN |
| 4 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 251 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BRANCH 2 |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Northern California District | SALT |
| 3 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 281 acres | Northern California District | LNU 40 |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 29 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | GUINDA |
| 29 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Central California District | LNU MIDDLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rumsey in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 2 debris flow, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Debris Flow | Rumsey | $392,000 | State Route 16 in Yolo County was closed from Rumsey Canyon to State Route 20 due to a rock/mud slide blocking the roadway. |
| January 2017 | Debris Flow | Rumsey | $365,000 | Roadway closed on Highway 16 Yolo - Rumsey to Highway 20 due to rockslide and debris in the roadway. |
| December 2021 | Flood | Rumsey | - | California highway patrol reported a slide and a 30 ft wide stream of water going across the roadway on SR16. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the general area were in excess of 2.5 inches. |
| February 2019 | Heavy Rain | Rumsey | - | In Yolo and Colusa Counties, Hwy 16 had eastbound lanes closed at Hwy 20 and westbound lanes closed at Rumsey Canyon due to rock slides. The closest 24 hour rain report had 2.06 inches of rain. |
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.
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 Rumsey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3474288 | 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 232009. 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.
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.