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.
Then and now
1921 to 1981The 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.


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
Knipp and Stengel Ranch Barnlisted 1987- Hines Houselisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresSea 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,305 | |
| 2020 | 1,169 | -136 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1921 USGS Plantation quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Stewarts Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Stewarts Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 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
- 1978 USGS Stewarts Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Point Arena quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
76 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | SORCERER WOOD THE_SEA_R |
| 7 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | BOSUN'S |
| 3 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Northern California District | RICHARDSON |
| 22 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HWY 1 |
| 21 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | TREATMENT |
| 21 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | RANCH |
| 13 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | FRANCHINI |
| 11 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | TIN BARN RD ANNAPOLIS |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallace Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | 1918 | |
| Pepperwood Creek | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Pepperwood Creek | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Gualala Aggregates | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gualala Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Twin Bridges Section 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Crossing | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Annapolis | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Stewarts Point | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Walsh Landing | 13.7 miles | 18 | |
| Seaview | 16.8 miles | 18 | |
| Las Lomas | 17.1 miles | 14 | |
| Fort Ross | 17.8 miles | 18 | |
| Truth Home | 19.2 miles | 18 |
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 Ranch | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459108 | 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 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.









