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Valdez, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Clarksburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95612. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Valdez within Yolo County

Then and now

1908 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valdez, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Valdez, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Valdez in 2013, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined2

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
15 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
21 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yolo 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
Sorroca1.1 miles27
Lund1.6 miles23
Daisie1.8 miles23
Green2.0 miles23
Morgans Landing2.0 miles27
Greendale3.6 miles27
Central5.1 miles25
Coniston6.7 miles25

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.

Wikidata item Q7909403The 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 1656381. 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.