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Beaumont, California

45 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the San Gorgonio Pass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92223. The Survey maps it on the Beaumont quadrangle. 53,036 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,612 feet above sea level.

Beaumont within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beaumont, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Beaumont, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Beaumont grew from 36,877 to 53,036 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
201036,877
202053,036+16,159 (+44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 45 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

1,049 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,049 fires within 5 miles of Beaumont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59,995 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 124 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/undetermined508
Equipment and vehicle use218
Arson/incendiarism124
Smoking81
Misuse of fire by a minor57
Debris and open burning29
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Recreation and ceremony7
Firearms and explosives use2

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 ProtectionFREEWAY
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRAMSEY
9 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRiverside UnitW WILLIAMS ST / MORONGO A
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2720
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLOCAL
9 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRiverside UnitSCHOOL
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitW OAK VALLEY PY / POTRERO
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Beaumont: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Eden Hot Springs DepositLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Paymaster MineGoldProspect
Banning PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eden Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Highland SpringsGeothermalProducer
Creek DepositLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Eden Hot Springs DepositLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Eden Hot Springs Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Lamb Canyon DepositLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaumont in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 3 wildfire, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999FloodBeaumont1 killed, 4 hurt, $50,000Heavy rain reduced visibility to less than 30 feet and flooded Highway 70 and Interstate 10, causing several vehicles to lose control and spin out.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBeaumont$35,000no account filed
September 2015HailBeaumont-Public reported quarter-inch hail.
September 2003WildfireBeaumont-no account filed
May 2002WildfireBeaumont-no account filed
September 2002WildfireBeaumont-no account filed
September 2001Flash FloodBeaumont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Riverside 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
Nicklin2.2 miles38
Cherry Valley3.0 miles45
Highland Springs3.3 miles45
Hinda4.6 miles38
Eden Hot Springs4.8 miles38
Banning5.4 miles45
Eden5.4 miles38
Gilman Hot Springs6.5 miles39

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 BeaumontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q813431The 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 1660318. 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.