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Canyon Lake, California

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Elsinore Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92587. It lies near Skippers Island. The Survey maps it on the Lake Elsinore quadrangle. 11,082 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,385 feet above sea level.

Canyon Lake within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canyon Lake, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Canyon Lake, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Canyon Lake grew from 10,561 to 11,082 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
201010,561
202011,082+521 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 38 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

1,628 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,628 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,307 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 124 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/undetermined816
Equipment and vehicle use349
Misuse of fire by a minor141
Arson/incendiarism124
Smoking81
Debris and open burning47
Recreation and ceremony28
Power generation/transmission/distribution23
Natural11
Firearms and explosives use6
Fireworks2

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 acreRiverside UnitMISSION TRL WILD
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSUN CITY BL MENI
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOETZ
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
9 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE-1415
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitCATHEDRAL PEAK RD MENI
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitEUCALYPTUS AV LELS
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitSERPENS CT MENI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Canyon Lake: 22 past producers, 22 prospects, 12 occurrences, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Tin, Slate, Dimension. 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
American Flag and Monarch MinesTin, Cobalt, NickelUnknown
Best Ranch DepositLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Best Ranch DepositLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Bundy-Murrieta DepositFeldspar, SilicaProspect
Electric Copper and GoldCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Electric Copper and Gold MineCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Palisades GroupLead, Copper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Palisades GroupLead, Silver, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Shining Star GroupArsenic, Gold, IronOccurrence

Every working 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
Quail Valley2.1 miles35
Lake Elsinore3.1 miles38
Sedco Hills3.1 miles38
North Elsinore3.5 miles38
Sun City4.4 miles35
Lakeland Village4.9 miles38
Good Hope5.5 miles40
Terra Cotta5.5 miles38

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 Canyon LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q656378The 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 1668254. 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.