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Campo, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Mountain Empire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91906. It lies in Campo Valley. The Survey maps it on the Campo quadrangle. 2,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,802 feet above sea level.

Campo within San Diego County

Then and now

1931 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Campo, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Campo, surveyed 1931

Compare 1931 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Campo grew from 2,684 to 2,955 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
20102,684
20202,955+271 (+10%)

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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Campo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,234 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Equipment and vehicle use23
Recreation and ceremony20
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural10
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresSan Diego UnitB5 2
7 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictSPENCER
4 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitFAR FIRE
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitMILL
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictBORDER 11
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
20 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern California AgencySMKCHK7273
2 September 2010Arson/incendiarism827 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictCOWBOY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Campo: 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Iron. 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
Andes MineTinOccurrence
Bullard ProspectGraphiteOccurrence
CampoIronOccurrenceVein
Campo Milling Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Quality DepositFeldspar, SilicaProspect
Andes ProspectGoldProspect
Bill Hills ProspectGoldProspect
Cameron Corners PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Campo Milling Corp.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
CampoMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Campo in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 wildfire, 4 heavy rain, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. The reports record 4 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
August 1999WildfireCampo2 hurt, $100,000Erratic winds fanned a wild fire to 1200 acres. Several sheds and barns were burned.
July 2003Heavy RainCampo1 hurt, $150,000no account filed
October 1999WildfireCampo1 hurtHot dry weather and east winds near 20 mph rekindled a wild fire that had been brought under control a few days earlier. This fire straddling both side of the U.S.-Mexico border, burned an additional 1000 acres on the U.S. side before it was brought under control.
October 1999WildfireCampo$210,000A wild fire fanned by erratic winds quickly grew to over 4000 acres. Seven structures were destroyed: one house and 6 out buildings.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCampo$50,000The SDGE Mesonet, CMCSD recorded a wind gust of 65 mph during a downburst from a thunderstorm at 1400 PST on the 28th. The Campo ASOS also recorded a gust of 61 mph at 1352 PST nearby. During the time of these gusts, 5 power poles were snapped on Buckman Springs Road near Highway 94 and several large tree branches fell onto the Campo COOP observer's property. Power was lost soon after these poles and branches came down. Lightning sparked several small fires on the observer's property, but all were contained quickly. The Campo ASOS also recorded 1.02 inches of rain in 30 minutes during this storm.
September 2003Flash FloodCampo$20,000no account filed
August 2003Flash FloodCampo$12,000no account filed
August 2012LightningCampo$5,000Heavy thunderstorm moving north toward Highway 94 and Interstate 8 with frequent lightning. Lightning hit the spotter's well in her yard.|Heavy rain also caused minor flooding on Buckman Springs Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCampo$100Campo ASOS reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 43 knots.
September 2022Heavy RainCampo-Heavy rain associated with Tropical Cyclone Kay produced heavy rainfall across the San Diego County Mountains on September 9. The following are the heaviest rain reports from the day:||Mesonet station LGMC1 Mt. Laguna: 4.25 inch.|Mesonet Station MLGC1 Mt. Laguna Observatory RAWS, 2 NNW Mt. Laguna: 3.79 inch.|Mesonet Station AGUC1 Agua Caliente, 10 NE Mt. Laguna: 2.06 inch.|Mesonet Station TRRC1 Tierra Del Sol, 9 ENE Campo: 1.02 inch, 0.45 inch which occurred in one hour.
August 2014Debris FlowCampo-CHP reported mud/dirt/rock on Campo Road/State Route 94 just west of Forest Gate Road due to heavy rainfall.
June 2006Heavy RainCampo-Doppler Radar indicated very heavy rainfall from thunderstorms over rural San Diego County near Campo. According to the CHP, heavy rain reduced visibility to near zero along Interstate 8 and lightning caused a fire in the center divide. A gage just south of the border in Loma Tova, Mexico, measured 1.25 inches of rain in 15 minutes from the same cluster of storms. No reports of flash flooding were received most likely because of the rural location of the storms.
September 2006HailCampo-A storm chaser observed nickel size hail and measured a wind gust of 47 mph from a thunderstorm south of Morena Village. Frequent cloud to ground lightning was also observed by a resident of Campo.
August 1997Heavy RainCampo-Subtropical moisture flowing around a strong area of high pressure over the southwestern United States, ignited several intense thunderstorms over the mountains of San Diego County during the afternoon. One storm south of Pine Valley produced 2.75 inches of rain in one hour and fifteen minutes, along with dime size hail. The storm filled a dry creek bed to bankfull, and sent mud and debris over a four mile stretch of Buckman Springs Road, from Oak Drive to Highway 94.
September 2003HailCampo-no account filed
September 2002FloodCampo-no account filed
July 2000WildfireCampo-no account filed
August 2000Flash FloodCampo-no account filed
December 1999WildfireCampo-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
Rancho Del Campo0.3 miles19
Cameron Corners1.6 miles22
Barrett1.6 miles22
Hacienda del Florasol1.8 miles30
Canyon City3.2 miles30
Clover Flat4.8 miles22
Morena Village5.4 miles31
Potrero7.6 miles30

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 CampoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q249224The 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 1660429. 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.