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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.

Channel Islands Beach within Ventura County

Then and now

1904 to 1982

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Channel Islands Beach, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Channel Islands Beach, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

Channel 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,103
20202,870-233 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

62 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined46
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
21 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresVentura County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ventura 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
Hollywood by the Sea0.2 miles24
Silver Strand0.4 miles24
Oxnard Beach0.4 miles24
Hollywood Beach0.7 miles24
Wene'me (historical)1.4 miles24
Port Hueneme1.6 miles24
Oxnard Shores2.5 miles24
Oxnard3.7 miles24

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q550185The 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.