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Stonyford, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the West Colusa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95979. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stonyford quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.

Stonyford within Colusa County

Then and now

1951 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stonyford, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Stonyford, surveyed 1951

Compare 1951 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Stonyford fell from 149 to 133 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
2010149
2020133-16 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Stonyford between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25,642 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictPATRICIA
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California District41
3 September 2003Natural400 acresNorthern California District42
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMendocino National ForestDIAMOND
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMORALES
3 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use41 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSITES
3 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitROADSIDE
26 September 2015Other causesunder an acreTehama-Glenn Unit303

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colusa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Stonyford: 10 occurrences, 10 prospects, 5 producers, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Chromium, Marble, Dimension. 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
DanielsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Salt Spring No.2GeothermalUnknown
BrownMarble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
BrownMarble, DimensionPast Producer
DanielsMarble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
Chrome Wonder DepositChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Liberty Chrome MineChromiumOccurrenceChromite
SvastikaChromiumProducer
SvastikaChromiumProspect
SwastikaChromiumOccurrenceChromite

Every working recorded in Colusa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonyford in 3 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023FloodStonyford$1,000,000Colusa County completed a preliminary estimate of damage to roads, road closures, debris removal, and high river levels of about $800,000 in damage. The Colusa Boat Landing had some damages to the private levee, with an estimate of about $200,000.
September 2025Heavy RainStonyford-Stonyford RAWS measured 3.08 inches of heavy rain in 5 hours near a strong thunderstorm.
October 2021Heavy RainStonyford-Heavy rain was reported in Colusa County. Reported storm totals reached 4.56 to 6.48 inches.

Every storm recorded in Colusa 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
Lodoga5.8 miles12
Devils Elbow6.4 miles12
Fouts Springs6.6 miles13
Bonnie View7.5 miles12
Sites11.8 miles18
Leesville14.3 miles14
Mills Orchards15.8 miles18
Delevan18.8 miles15

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 StonyfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6646501The 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 1659881. 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.