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Castroville, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Castroville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95012. It lies near Paradise Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Moss Landing quadrangle. 7,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Castroville within Monterey County

Then and now

1912 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Castroville, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Castroville, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

On record in Castroville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Castroville grew from 6,481 to 7,515 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
20106,481
20207,515+1,034 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Castroville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitELKHORN
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMELUGAN
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003693
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitELKHORN
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionELKHORN
24 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003947
22 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU0003587

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Castroville: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Chromium, 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
Arca Roofing Tile PlantClayPast Producer
Monterey Bay Salt WorksSaltProducer
Moss Landing Brick PlantMagnesitePlant
Moss Landing Magnesia PlantChromium, MagnesitePlant
Unnamed MineStonePast Producer
Lapis #110 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pacific Cement,Aggregates Inc-LapizSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspectSedimentary
Seaside Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castroville in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
December 2014Heavy RainCastroville$1,000Heavy rain overwhelmed the sewage plant in Castroville resulting in a sewage spill.
January 2018FloodCastroville-Roadway flooding reported at Pajaro and Haight St.
January 2016Funnel CloudCastroville-Funnel cloud reported. Did not touch down.

Every storm recorded in Monterey 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
Nashua1.7 miles30
Oak Hills2.4 miles25
Moss2.7 miles26
Neponset2.9 miles30
Moss Landing3.1 miles26
Elkhorn4.1 miles25
Cooper4.2 miles27
Prunedale4.7 miles25

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 CastrovilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q372402The 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 277486. 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.