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Boulder Oaks, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Mountain Empire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91962. It stands on Kitchen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cameron Corners quadrangle.

Boulder Oaks within San Diego County

Then and now

1931 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Boulder Oaks, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Boulder Oaks, surveyed 1931

Compare 1931 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Boulder Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,296 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use79
Recreation and ceremony76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Natural29
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1

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 2015Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestEMPIRE
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSan Diego UnitLA POSTA
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern California AgencyKITCHEN
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestBOULDER
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestCOOGAN
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCleveland National ForestEDGE
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCleveland National ForestPOST
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCleveland National ForestBUCKMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Boulder Oaks: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Arsenic, Silver. 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
Cassiterite Placer ClaimTinPast Producer
Eagle Nest MineGold, SilverProducer
Eagle Nest MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Moly HoganMolybdenumUnknown
Sheephead Truck Trail DepositStoneProspect
Unnamed - 5SilicaOccurrence
White Rose DepositFeldsparPast Producer
Willhite GroupGold, Arsenic, SilverProspect
Cottonwood Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kitchen Creek/I8 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder Oaks in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
July 2015LightningBoulder Oaks$500CHP reported a lightning strike that started a small fire near Interstate 8 and Kitchen Creek Road.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Boulder Oaks-KUSI TV shared several photos of a waterspout over Lake Morena. Early a report and photo of a funnel cloud was capture on SDGE webcamera near Mt Laguna. No damage reported but water spray evident over the lake. Thunderstorms and cumulus clouds were in the vicinity.
July 2013Flash FloodBoulder Oaks-Heavy rain was concentrated west of the Tecate Divide, along and a quarter mile on either side of Interstate 8. The rains were so heavy, they turned the rocky terrain in the distance into hundreds of small waterfalls and turned a local dirt road on an adjacent ranch site into a muddy flow.
July 2012Flash FloodBoulder Oaks-La Posta road flooded near Interstate 8. A nearby mesonet station recorded 1.66 inches of rain in the past hour from 1300 to 1400 PST.

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
Morena Village3.8 miles31
Clover Flat6.1 miles22
Pine Valley6.6 miles34
Cameron Corners7.1 miles22
Barrett7.2 miles22
Hacienda del Florasol7.9 miles30
Live Oak Springs8.5 miles19
Campo8.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660363. 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.