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Cabazon, California

40 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 92230. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cabazon quadrangle. 2,629 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,834 feet above sea level.

Cabazon 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 Cabazon, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Cabazon, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Cabazon grew from 2,535 to 2,629 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
20102,535
20202,629+94 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 40 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

855 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 855 fires within 5 miles of Cabazon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91,874 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 194 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/undetermined306
Arson/incendiarism194
Equipment and vehicle use166
Smoking65
Debris and open burning42
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Fireworks14
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictFREEMAN
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitI 10 E/ MAIN ST 34
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE 1738
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRiverside UnitESPERANZA
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitBONITA
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouthern California AgencySULLIVAN
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitI 10 E/ FIELDS RD OFRP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cabazon: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
Metropolitan Portal Rock StockpileMagnesitePlant1960, 1976
Beaumont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cabazon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Matich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cabazon in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 wildfire. 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
January 2010FloodCabazon$150,000In Mecca, eight homes had to be evacuated due to flooding. Some residents claimed that flooding has been a problem for years. An auto wrecking business in Indio was also flooded.
December 2021FloodCabazon$2,000Caltrans reports flooded roads with some vehicles stuck in water at the intersection of seminole drive and main street in cabazon.
January 2023Debris FlowCabazon-CalTrans report of rocks and debris in roadway on Seminole Drive at Main Street in Cabazon.
June 2022Flash FloodCabazon-Law enforcement reports roadway flooding, mostly in the #1 lane on the I-10 E near mile marker 18.
December 2021Heavy RainCabazon-Mesonet station UPSC1 upper Snow Creek reports 6.03 inches of rain in the past 24 hours.
November 2019Flash FloodCabazon-Highway 243 was washed away from heavy rain and closed from Twin Pines to Banning.
November 2014LightningCabazon-Lightning from the 17th eventually ignited the North Face Fire on the 21st, with the aid of offshore winds.
August 2014Flash FloodCabazon-CHP reports roadway flooding on Danbury Street in Cabazon. Flood water, rocks, mud, and debris flowing down the street. The roadway is impassable due to boulders and mud blocking the street.
December 1996Tornado (F1)Cabazon-A cold front sweeping through Southern California, was accompanied by strong, gusty winds and bursts of moderate to heavy precipitation. As the front moved through the San Gorgonio Pass, a short lived tornado spun up at Cabazon. The twister was noticed by firemen near the corner of Dell and Lemon, and moved northeastward only about 700 feet before dissipating. On it's short path, it lifted a 5 ton mobile home and deposited it 30 feet from it''s foundation with roof and contents removed. Six other mobile homes suffered minor damage.
May 2003WildfireCabazon-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
Owl1.8 miles40
Mons2.1 miles40
Banning4.8 miles45
Snow Creek5.8 miles40
Pine Wood7.6 miles40
White Water7.9 miles40
Bonnie Bell7.9 miles40
Highland Springs9.0 miles45

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 CabazonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2805009The 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 1652679. 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.