Channel Islands Beach, California
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Oxnard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93035. The Survey maps it on the Oxnard quadrangle. 2,870 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresChannel Islands Beach fell from 3,103 to 2,870 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,103 | |
| 2020 | 2,870 | -233 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Hueneme quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Hueneme quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Hueneme quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Oxnard quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Oxnard quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
62 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Channel Islands Beach between 2015 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 46 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
| 26 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
| 2 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.6 acres | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
| 17 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ventura County Fire Department | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood by the Sea | 0.2 miles | 24 | |
| Silver Strand | 0.4 miles | 24 | |
| Oxnard Beach | 0.4 miles | 24 | |
| Hollywood Beach | 0.7 miles | 24 | |
| Wene'me (historical) | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Port Hueneme | 1.6 miles | 24 | |
| Oxnard Shores | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Oxnard | 3.7 miles | 24 |
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 Channel Islands Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q550185 | The 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 1867004. 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.










