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Zayante, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the San Lorenzo Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95018. It stands on Lompico Creek. The Survey maps it on the Felton quadrangle. 729 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Zayante within Santa Cruz County

Then and now

1902 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Zayante, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Zayante, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Zayante grew from 705 to 729 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
2010705
2020729+24 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 32 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

603 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 603 fires within 5 miles of Zayante between 1992 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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/undetermined255
Equipment and vehicle use157
Debris and open burning43
Arson/incendiarism39
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Recreation and ceremony27
Smoking23
Power generation/transmission/distribution23
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHERMON
9 September 2013Smokingunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCREEKSIDE AV ZAYANTE
9 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitP.G.&E.#14
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBEAR CREEK #3
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBEAR CREEK NUMBER 2
8 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitLAKE
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitROAD
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBURTIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Zayante: 11 past producers, 7 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Granite, Clay. 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
Central Supply CoFlagstoneUnknown
Felton QuarryStoneProducer
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence
Felton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jb KingClayUnknown
Pacific Cement and Aggregates IncSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed LocationClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Bachellor Ranch QuarryGraniteOccurrence
Decomposed Granite PitGraniteOccurrence
Holmes Lime & Cement CoLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Lompico1.1 miles32
Olympia1.7 miles32
Mission Springs1.9 miles32
Ben Lomond2.3 miles32
Glen Arbor2.4 miles32
Clems (historical)2.5 miles24
Brackney2.6 miles32
Bethany Park2.9 miles24

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 ZayanteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960830The 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 1656418. 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.