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Cambria Pines, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93428. It stands on Santa Rosa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cambria quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Cambria Pines within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1919 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cambria Pines, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Cambria Pines, surveyed 1919

On record in Cambria Pines

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Cambria Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use31
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitBURTON DR CAMBRIA 71
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1901
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitMOONSTONE
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitNOEL WY SLO_CO
27 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitPICO
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitCREEK
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitVILLAGE
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitTRENTON ST CMB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Cambria Pines: 14 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. 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
Phelan ProspectManganeseOccurrence1918
Rogers Ranch OccurrenceChromiumOccurrenceChromite
San Simeon Creek DepositAntimonyPast Producer
San Simeon Creek Shell DepositsCalciumOccurrence
Bianchi QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cambria PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rancho San Simeon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CambriaMercuryPast Producer1903
Cambria MineMercuryPast Producer
Gambrie MineMercuryProducer

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cambria Pines in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. 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 2021Flash FloodCambria Pines-Heavy rain produced significant urban flooding in the community of Cambria. Along Windsor Boulevard, a vehicle was stuck with flooding impacted the roadway. The motorist was rescued.

Every storm recorded in San Luis Obispo 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
West Village0.3 miles22
Park Hill0.6 miles22
Happy Hill0.7 miles22
Cambria0.7 miles22
East Village0.8 miles22
Leimert0.8 miles22
Tin City0.9 miles22
Lodge Hill1.3 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 Cambria PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5025263The 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 1703074. 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.