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Windsor, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Healdsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95492. The Survey maps it on the Healdsburg quadrangle. 26,344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Windsor within Sonoma County

Then and now

1920 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Windsor, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Windsor, surveyed 1920

On record in Windsor

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Windsor grew from 22,744 to 26,344 between 2000 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
200022,744
201026,801+4,057 (+18%)
202026,344-457 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined113
Equipment and vehicle use64
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFELTA
8 September 1996Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCHALK
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
7 September 2000Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNEWMAN
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitEASTSIDE
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unit101
4 September 2015Other causes1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVINECREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sonoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Windsor: 13 producers, 8 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Mercury, Stone. 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
Unnamed ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Goodman Bros. DepositDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Goodman Bros. DepositDiatomitePast Producer
Basalt Rock Co.StoneUnknown
Brooks QuarryStoneProducer
DreamlandMercuryProducer
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Unnamed LocationMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectMercuryOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sonoma County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 5 flood, 1 hail. 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
January 2024FloodWindsor$10The Arata Lane offramp from US Highway 101 Northbound was closed due to standing water on the roadway.
February 2019FloodWindsor-Flooding across both off ramp lanes of US 101N at Arata.
January 2017FloodWindsor-Widespread flooded roadways at Arata and Los Amigos.
January 2017FloodWindsor-Roadway flooding. Eastside Road and Windsor River Road. Approximately 18 inches of water across lanes.
December 2014FloodWindsor-Northbound US-101 flooded across all lanes, north of Arata Lane.
February 2019HailWindsor-no account filed

Every storm 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
East Windsor0.8 miles22
Shiloh2.0 miles22
Wilson Grove2.9 miles22
Grant3.4 miles22
Fulton4.3 miles20
Wikiup4.3 miles22
Woolsey4.4 miles20
Bailhache4.4 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 WindsorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986852The 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 1667892. 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.