Ukiah, California
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ukiah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95482. It stands on Orrs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ukiah quadrangle. 16,607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1920 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Ukiah
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 5 records
Held-Poage Houselisted 1988
Charles Hofman Houselisted 1993
Palace Hotellisted 1979
Sun Houselisted 1981
Ukiah Main Post Officelisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresUkiah grew from 16,075 to 16,607 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 | 16,075 | |
| 2020 | 16,607 | +532 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1920 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
335 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Ukiah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,327 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 54 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 | 129 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 59 |
| Debris and open burning | 55 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 54 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | VICHY |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | BURKE |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | GUN |
| 8 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | PARK |
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | ORR SPRINGS |
| 6 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mendocino Unit | AHUV - STHH 2 |
| 6 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Mendocino Unit | LOW GAP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Ukiah: 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Chromium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calpella | Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| Empress | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Gibson | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Krueger Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Moore | Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite | |
| Moore | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Vichy Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Van Allen | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Van Allen | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Freitas Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ukiah in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Heavy Rain | Ukiah | $400 | Large rocks have come to rest on the intersection of Orr springs road and North state street, 2 miles north of Ukiah. Lat. 39.18N, Long. -123.21W. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Ukiah | - | Road washing away near the intersection of Low Gap Road and Pine Ridge Road west of Ukiah. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Ukiah | - | Highways closed from Ukiah to Hopland due to flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asylum | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Presswood | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Rogina Heights | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Talmage | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| The Forks | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Vichy Springs | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| El Roble | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Ukiah Rancheria | 4.9 miles | 17 |
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 Ukiah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q837105 | 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 277623. 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.






