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Boulevard, California

19 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 91905. It stands on Walker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Live Oak Springs quadrangle. 359 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,638 feet above sea level.

Boulevard 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 Boulevard, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Boulevard, surveyed 1931

Compare 1931 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Boulevard grew from 315 to 359 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
2010315
2020359+44 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Boulevard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,281 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined101
Equipment and vehicle use63
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitRIBBONWOOD 4
8 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern California AgencyCAMPO #1
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictJACUMBA
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitHI PASS RD TIERRA_DEL_SO
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouthern California AgencyMESA FIRE
25 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictJACUMBA 2
25 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSan Diego UnitMCCAIN
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern California AgencyMANZSMKCHK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Boulevard: 10 occurrences, 9 producers, 9 prospects, 6 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Quartz, Manganese, Tungsten. 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
Carrizo Gorge DepositWollastoniteOccurrence
Grand View No. 1 ClaimGoldOccurrence
Last Canyon MineStrontiumProspect
Packrat MineGemstone, Semiprecious GemstoneProducer
Beebe Hole MineSemiprecious GemstoneProducer
Crystal Gem MineGemstoneProducer
Crystal Gem MineSemiprecious GemstoneProspect
Ruby GroupBerylliumProducer
Ruby GroupBerylliumPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectGemstoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulevard in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 hail, 3 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 3 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
October 1999WildfireBoulevard3 hurt, $50,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBoulevard$5,000no account filed
August 2005Flash FloodBoulevard$5,000no account filed
January 2016Thunderstorm WindBoulevard-The Boulevard West mesonet reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2011HailBoulevard-An employee of the Golden Acorn Casino along I-8 near Boulevard estimated penny-sized hail around 1200 PST.
September 2008Funnel CloudBoulevard-A funnel cloud was reported north of Interstate 8 near Boulevard.
July 2005HailBoulevard-A thunderstorm between Boulevard and Jacumba dropped 3/4 inch hail on interstate 8.
June 1999WildfireBoulevard-About 1500 acres of brush was burned in a wild fire along McCain Valley Road in remote eastern San Diego County. About 300 firefighters battled the blaze.
July 2006HailBoulevard-no account filed
July 2006HailBoulevard-no account filed
August 2005HailBoulevard-no account filed
June 2002WildfireBoulevard-no account filed
August 1998Heavy RainBoulevard-no account filed

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
Calexico Lodge0.4 miles19
Manzanita0.9 miles19
Bankhead Springs1.8 miles20
Live Oak Springs3.7 miles19
Tierra del Sol3.9 miles18
Titus5.4 miles20
Jacumba Hot Springs5.5 miles15
Clover Flat7.5 miles22

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 BoulevardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458709The 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 239605. 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.