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.
Then and now
1942 to 1982The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresSalmon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 111 | +25 (+29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1942 USGS Bodega Head quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Bodega Head quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Bodega Head quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Bodega Bay quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
82 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HARBOR |
| 27 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BAY HILL |
| 25 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BEACH |
| 25 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 89 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BODEGA |
| 21 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BEAN AV / OCEAN VIEW AV |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | COLEMAN VALLEY RD / HWY 1 |
| 17 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | DORAN |
| 17 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | RUDINOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hagemann Ranch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bodega Bay | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Carmet | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Bodega | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Bridgehaven | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Duncans Mills | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Occidental | 7.2 miles | 20 | |
| Jenner | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Alliance Redwood | 7.4 miles | 20 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6645334 | 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 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.








