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Venado, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Russian River-Sonoma Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95448. It lies near Rabbit Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Cazadero quadrangle. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Venado within Sonoma County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Venado, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Venado, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Venado between 1992 and 2018, burning about 916 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitMILL
7 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSWEETWATER SPRINGS RD / M
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSTEWARTS
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSWEET
19 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSWEETWATER
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMILL
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMILL
16 September 2008Natural2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Venado: 13 unknowns, 12 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Chromium, Magnesite, 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
Boyer MineManganese, SilicaProspect1916
Guerneville Mine & MillStoneProducer
Inman Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Purviance RanchCalciumUnknown
Boyer MineManganeseProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Wheeler ProspectManganeseProspect
Baby JackCopperUnknown
GrizzlyCopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed LocationCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sonoma 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
Dorr Place4.6 miles18
Rio Nido6.1 miles23
Goat Rock6.2 miles18
Cazadero6.4 miles18
El Bonita6.6 miles23
Rolands6.7 miles23
Hale Place6.9 miles18
Monte Rosa7.1 miles18

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 VenadoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7919531The 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 1656386. 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.