Ballard, California

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1995

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

• Ballard Adobeslisted 2025

Ballard grew from 467 to 768 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.

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.

• 1905 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1942 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Lompoc quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:62500
• 1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1995 USGS Los Olivos quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Ballard between 2005 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Santa Ynez
• Solvang
• Los Olivos
• Buellton
• Jonata Park
• Cachuma Village

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Ballard: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Chromium, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660302. 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.