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Bonny Doon, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Santa Cruz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95060. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Davenport quadrangle. 2,868 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Bonny Doon within Santa Cruz County

Then and now

1902 to 1997

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 Bonny Doon, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Bonny Doon, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Bonny Doon grew from 2,678 to 2,868 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
20102,678
20202,868+190 (+7%)

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

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Bonny Doon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined121
Equipment and vehicle use73
Recreation and ceremony21
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitREDWOOD
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitMARTIN
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1843
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCEMENT
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitROAD
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitPG&E #4
7 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitHWY 9 FELTON
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitSTUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bonny Doon: 5 occurrences, 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Bonny Doon Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Decomposed Granite PitGraniteOccurrence
Felton QuarryStoneProducer
Davenport Cement PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
San Vicente CanyonStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayPast Producer
Big Boulder MineGoldUnknown
Gold GulchGoldUnknown
Holmes Lime & Cement CoLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Ixl QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Majors CreekGoldUnknown

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
Davenport3.0 miles32
Petroleum (historical)3.5 miles16
Davenport Landing3.7 miles32
Brackney4.1 miles32
Majors4.1 miles16
Felton4.1 miles32
Glen Arbor4.3 miles32
Swanton4.4 miles32

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 Bonny DoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476197The 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 1667293. 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.