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Vallejo, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Vallejo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94590. It stands on Austin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mare Island quadrangle. 126,090 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Vallejo within Solano County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vallejo, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Vallejo, surveyed 1902

On record in Vallejo

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 9 records

Population over time

3 figures

Vallejo grew from 5,987 to 126,090 between 1880 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
18805,987
2010115,942
2020126,090+10,148 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

451 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 451 fires within 5 miles of Vallejo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,340 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/undetermined333
Arson/incendiarism34
Smoking26
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Solano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Vallejo: 12 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed LocationLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Lake HermanStoneUnknown
Napa Junction PlantStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown
QuarryStoneUnknown
Red Rock Quarry, Ltd.StoneUnknown
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Borges ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Borges ProspectMercuryUnknown

Every working recorded in Solano County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vallejo in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2000: 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2000Heavy RainVallejo$50,000no account filed
February 2000Heavy RainVallejo$20,000no account filed
March 1998Funnel CloudVallejo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Solano 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
South Vallejo1.3 miles36
Harry Floyd Terrace2.0 miles35
Carquinez Heights2.1 miles36
Guadalcanal Village2.2 miles27
Flosden Acres2.2 miles29
Flosden (historical)2.8 miles29
Chabot Terrace3.0 miles35
Glencove3.6 miles36

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 VallejoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q208445The 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 1661612. 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.