Azusa, California
44 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East San Gabriel Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91702. It lies near Beatty Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Azusa quadrangle. 50,000 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1894 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1894 against another survey:
On record in Azusa
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
Azusa Civic Centerlisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresAzusa grew from 46,361 to 50,000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 46,361 | |
| 2020 | 50,000 | +3,639 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
21 surveys from 44 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000
- 1928 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1933 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000
- 1939 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Azusa quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
467 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 467 fires within 5 miles of Azusa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,420 acres in total. None started naturally. 82 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/undetermined | 216 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 82 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 60 |
| Smoking | 35 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | Angeles National Forest | GUN |
| 8 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | GABRIEL |
| 7 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | DUARTE |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 53 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Azusa: 41 past producers, 5 prospects, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felix | Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Fish Canyon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kelsey | Gold, Silver, Lead, Cobalt | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Kelsey, Et Al. | Gold, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Largo Sand and Gravel | Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | Sedimentary | |
| San Gabriel Valley Placers | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sierra Vista | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Rancho Azusa | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Victoria | Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Daisy, Et Al. | Lead, Gold, Silver | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Azusa in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 2 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 28 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Wildfire | Azusa | 14 hurt, $15,300,000 | The Williams Fire burned 38.094 acres of land in the Angeles National Forest. This fire, which was located about 25 miles north of Azusa, destroyed 77 structures, including 62 cabins. No reports on the number of possible injuries have been received. |
| September 2002 | Wildfire | Azusa | 14 hurt, $12,700,000 | The Curve Fire burned 20,857 acres of land in the Angeles National Forest. The Curve Fire, which was caused by candles from a ritual sacrifice, destroyed 73 structures and injured at least 14 people. |
| February 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Azusa | $50,000 | A local television station reported tornado like winds damaged 11 homes. Most of the damage was to roofs and fallen trees. No funnel cloud was sighted. Several cars sustained damage. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Azusa | - | A strong thunderstorm generate one inch diameter hail in the city of Azusa. |
| February 2014 | Flash Flood | Azusa | - | Flash flooding and debris flows were reported near the Colby burn scar in the San Gabriel Valley near Glendora. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Azusa | - | Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding across east-central Los Angeles county. California Highway Patrol reported significant flooding and road closures along Interstate 10 and Interstate 605. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Azusa | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains produced flash flooding along the San Gabriel River, just north of Azusa. One hundred hikers had to be rescued when the river overflowed its banks. |
| February 2004 | Flash Flood | Azusa | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Azusa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q794396 | The 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 1652667. 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.




















