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Upper Lake, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Upper Lake-Nice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95485. It stands on Clover Creek. The Survey maps it on the Upper Lake quadrangle. 1,095 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,345 feet above sea level.

Upper Lake within Lake County

Then and now

1938 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Upper Lake, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Upper Lake, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Upper Lake grew from 1,052 to 1,095 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
20101,052
20201,095+43 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Upper Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,575 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use48
Arson/incendiarism41
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionELK MOUNTAIN RD / WHITE R
9 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRINGE
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPOINT # 2
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMendocino National ForestPOINT
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSARATOGA
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKELLY
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 29
5 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSAM # 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Upper Lake: 11 occurrences, 6 producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
PhillipsManganese, SilicaPast Producer1917, 1918
UnknownGold, SilverOccurrence
Utopia MineMercuryUnknown
PoeCopperOccurrenceVein
PoeCopperUnknown
UnknownAsbestosOccurrence
Unnamed LocationAsbestosOccurrence
Lowdermilk Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Middle Creek BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Middle Creek Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Lake in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 lightning. 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
February 2024LightningUpper Lake$5,000Lightning struck a house shattering windows. No other damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Saratoga Springs3.8 miles21
Nice4.4 miles21
Witter Springs (historical)4.8 miles21
Rose Place4.9 miles22
Cooper6.2 miles14
Vann6.5 miles17
Lucerne7.9 miles21
Wild Bill Place8.2 miles22

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 Upper LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460938The 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 236896. 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.