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Sea Ranch, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95497. The Survey maps it on the Stewarts Point quadrangle. 1,169 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Sea Ranch within Sonoma County

Then and now

1921 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sea Ranch, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Sea Ranch, surveyed 1921

On record in Sea Ranch

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sea Ranch fell from 1,305 to 1,169 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
20101,305
20201,169-136 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Sea Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSORCERER WOOD THE_SEA_R
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBOSUN'S
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern California DistrictRICHARDSON
22 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 1
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionTREATMENT
21 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitRANCH
13 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFRANCHINI
11 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTIN BARN RD ANNAPOLIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sea Ranch: 3 producers, 3 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Manganese. 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
Wallace ProspectManganeseOccurrence1918
Pepperwood CreekMercuryOccurrence
Pepperwood CreekMercuryOccurrence
Gualala AggregatesSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gualala BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Twin Bridges Section 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Valley Crossing2.4 miles17
Annapolis4.5 miles18
Stewarts Point5.3 miles17
Walsh Landing13.7 miles18
Seaview16.8 miles18
Las Lomas17.1 miles14
Fort Ross17.8 miles18
Truth Home19.2 miles18

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 Sea RanchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459108The 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 1723333. 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.