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Casmalia, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Guadalupe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93429. It lies in Casmalia Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Casmalia quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Casmalia within Santa Barbara County

Then and now

1905 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Casmalia, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Casmalia, surveyed 1905

Population over time

2 figures

Casmalia grew from 138 to 147 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
2010138
2020147+9 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 32 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Casmalia between 2005 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresVandenberg Air Force Base Fire DepartmentGRACIOSA
27 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Barbara County Fire Departmentnot named
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresVandenberg Air Force Base Fire DepartmentNORTHSTAR
23 June 2017Arson/incendiarism16 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
11 June 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
1 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Barbara County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara 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 Casmalia: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Sulfur. 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
Airox Inc Casmalia PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CasmaliaGoldOccurrence
Graciosa RidgeSulfurOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Salvaing Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara 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
Devon0.7 miles32
Shuman2.0 miles32
Antonio2.1 miles32
Narlon4.0 miles32
Waldorf5.2 miles27
Orcutt5.4 miles29
Betteravia5.6 miles27
Gum5.7 miles27

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 CasmaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1998053The 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 240319. 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.