San Ramon, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Central Contra Costa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94583. It stands on San Catanio Creek. The Survey maps it on the Diablo quadrangle. 84,605 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1896 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in San Ramon
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
Forest Home Farmslisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresSan Ramon grew from 72,148 to 84,605 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 | 72,148 | |
| 2020 | 84,605 | +12,457 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 27 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.
- 1896 USGS Mt. Diablo quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Mt. Diablo quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Mt. Diablo quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Diablo quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
155 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of San Ramon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 383 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 9 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | CHABOT #2 |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | ALCO #10 |
| 6 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | DEER MEADOW |
| 3 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 3 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.5 acres | Santa Clara Unit | EDEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of San Ramon: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mclaughlin Lithograph-Stone Quarry | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Mclaughlinlithograph-Stonequarry | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Mount Zion | Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Ramon in 2 storm reports in 2020: 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Hail | San Ramon | - | Spotter reporting pea-sized hail near San Ramon. |
| January 2020 | Flood | San Ramon | - | Roadway flooding at I-680 S and Crow Canyon Rd off ramp. Vehicles hydroplaning. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danville | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Diablo | 3.9 miles | 27 | |
| Alamo Oaks | 4.2 miles | 27 | |
| Blackhawk | 4.7 miles | 27 | |
| Camino Tassajara | 5.0 miles | 27 | |
| Rock City | 5.3 miles | 27 | |
| Alamo | 5.6 miles | 39 | |
| Tassajara | 6.2 miles | 24 |
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 San Ramon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q605472 | 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 1656275. 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.








