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Agra, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Camp Pendleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92672. It lies near Horno Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Las Pulgas Canyon quadrangle.

Agra within San Diego County

Then and now

1902 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Agra, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Agra, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Agra between 1996 and 2020, burning about 24,880 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,846 acresMarine Corps Base Camp PendletonHORNO
29 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitSAN MATEO
29 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego Unitnot named
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego Unitnot named
21 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego Unitnot named
20 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
29 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,025 acresMarine Corps Base Camp PendletonGRENADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agra in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2024FloodAgra-CalTrans report of flooding near I-5 South and Las Pulgas Canyon Road.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindAgra-A severe squall produced 60-70 mph wind gusts over northern Camp Pendleton. A peak gust of 70 mph was measured at Mateo Ridge with an additional 64 mph gust recorded at Case Springs.

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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
Don (historical)1.9 miles35
Las Flores4.1 miles35
San Onofre5.1 miles30
Stuart7.1 miles35
Chappo7.8 miles35
Ysidora (historical)8.8 miles35
Jofegan9.0 miles35
Ysidora9.0 miles46

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.

Wikidata item Q17139499The 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 1660234. 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.

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.