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Zamora, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Knights Landing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95698. It stands on Willow Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Zamora quadrangle. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Zamora 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 Zamora, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Zamora, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Zamora between 2003 and 2020, burning about 44 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2003Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unit85
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
26 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitOWL
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
8 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
2 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
20 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yolo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Zamora: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
O'Brien MineChromiumPast ProducerChromite

Every working recorded in Yolo County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zamora in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 4 flood, 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
November 2024FloodZamora-California Highway Patrol reported the entire roadway was flooded at the intersection of County Road 13 and County Road 96.
November 2024FloodZamora-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding of County Road 16 and County Road 95 in Yolo County, leading to closure of the road.
March 2023FloodZamora-California Highway Patrol reported 1 foot of water in the roadway.
February 2019FloodZamora-Caltrans reported road closed due to flooding southbound I505 between I5 and Cr19.
February 2005Funnel CloudZamora-no account filed

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
Ronda (historical)1.7 miles22
Britona (historical)2.4 miles24
Dufour3.2 miles22
Wycoff (historical)5.5 miles24
Yolo5.9 miles24
Elvaton (historical)6.2 miles24
Tyndall Landing6.9 miles21
Dunnigan7.7 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 ZamoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8065897The 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 1660224. 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.