Concepcion, California

The same ground, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1942 1989

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Point Conception Light Stationlisted 1981 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1942 USGS Point Conception quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Pt. Conception quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Point Conception quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Point Conception quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Concepcion between 2004 and 2011, burning about 309 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Jalama
• Jalama (historical)
• Shisholop (historical)
• Kunuqug (historical)
• Gato
• Sacate

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concepcion in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252874. 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.

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.