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Salmon Creek, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94923. It stands on Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bodega Head quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Salmon Creek within Sonoma County

Then and now

1942 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Salmon Creek, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Salmon Creek, surveyed 1942

Population over time

2 figures

Salmon Creek grew from 86 to 111 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.

YearPeople Change
201086
2020111+25 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Salmon Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2013Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHARBOR
27 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBAY HILL
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBEACH
25 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution89 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBODEGA
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBEAN AV / OCEAN VIEW AV
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCOLEMAN VALLEY RD / HWY 1
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDORAN
17 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRUDINOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Salmon Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Hagemann Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Bodega Bay1.4 miles17
Carmet1.8 miles17
Bodega4.7 miles18
Bridgehaven6.1 miles16
Duncans Mills7.1 miles16
Occidental7.2 miles20
Jenner7.4 miles16
Alliance Redwood7.4 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 Salmon CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6645334The 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 1659573. 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.