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West Sacramento, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Yolo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95691. The Survey maps it on the Sacramento West quadrangle. 53,915 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

West Sacramento within Yolo County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Sacramento, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of West Sacramento, surveyed 1907

On record in West Sacramento

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

West Sacramento grew from 48,744 to 53,915 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
201048,744
202053,915+5,171 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

152 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of West Sacramento between 1999 and 2019, burning about 557 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined122
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3

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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2009Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of West Sacramento: 11 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold. 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
Sacramento Gold PlacerGoldOccurrence
Sacramento Brick Co.ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Sacramento Brick Co.ClayPast Producer
American River DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barnett Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hard MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lentz Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lentz Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PerkinsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reeves Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Sacramento in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2005Tornado (F0)West Sacramento$2,000no account filed
November 2024FloodWest Sacramento-California Highway Patrol reported heavy flooding on the Highway 50 onramp at Jefferson Boulevard from heavy rain.

Every storm 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
Peethill0.5 miles23
Westwind Estates0.6 miles23
Mikon0.6 miles23
Broderick1.0 miles23
Bryte1.1 miles23
Lovdal1.8 miles23
Leeman (historical)2.4 miles23
Kobe (historical)3.2 miles23

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 West SacramentoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q983600The 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 1660149. 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.