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.
Then and now
1931 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1931 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1931 USGS Carrizo quadrangle1:125000
- 1939 USGS Campo quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Campo quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Cameron Corners quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1959 USGS Campo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Cameron Corners quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
279 since 1992Regional 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 use | 79 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 61 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Cleveland National Forest | EMPIRE |
| 9 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | San Diego Unit | LA POSTA |
| 8 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southern California Agency | KITCHEN |
| 7 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Cleveland National Forest | BOULDER |
| 7 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Cleveland National Forest | COOGAN |
| 6 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cleveland National Forest | EDGE |
| 6 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cleveland National Forest | POST |
| 5 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Cleveland National Forest | BUCKMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cassiterite Placer Claim | Tin | Past Producer | ||
| Eagle Nest Mine | Gold, Silver | Producer | ||
| Eagle Nest Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Moly Hogan | Molybdenum | Unknown | ||
| Sheephead Truck Trail Deposit | Stone | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed - 5 | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| White Rose Deposit | Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Willhite Group | Gold, Arsenic, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Cottonwood Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kitchen Creek/I8 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Lightning | Boulder Oaks | $500 | CHP reported a lightning strike that started a small fire near Interstate 8 and Kitchen Creek Road. |
| April 2019 | Tornado (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 2013 | Flash Flood | Boulder 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 2012 | Flash Flood | Boulder 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morena Village | 3.8 miles | 31 | |
| Clover Flat | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Pine Valley | 6.6 miles | 34 | |
| Cameron Corners | 7.1 miles | 22 | |
| Barrett | 7.2 miles | 22 | |
| Hacienda del Florasol | 7.9 miles | 30 | |
| Live Oak Springs | 8.5 miles | 19 | |
| Campo | 8.7 miles | 19 |
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.










