Corralitos, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Watsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95076. It lies near Eureka Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Watsonville West quadrangle. 2,342 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 269 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1912 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresCorralitos grew from 2,326 to 2,342 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 | 2,326 | |
| 2020 | 2,342 | +16 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 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.
- 1912 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1914 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1940 USGS Capitola quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Watsonville West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Watsonville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
556 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 556 fires within 5 miles of Corralitos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,064 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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 | 267 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 123 |
| Debris and open burning | 73 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 23 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | POLE LINE |
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | FREEDOM BL PAJARO_VALLEY |
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | GREEN |
| 9 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | LAGOON |
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | VALLEY |
| 9 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | EUREKA CANYON RD CORR 23 |
| 9 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | PALMER |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Ellicott Slough National Wildlife Refuge | CARSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Corralitos: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Chromium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triumph Steel Co | Iron, Chromium, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Cabrillo Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pleasant Valley Excavation | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pleasant Valley Excavation | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rubis Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Titus Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corralitos in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 debris flow. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Corralitos | $3,000,000 | A debris flow initiated in a seasonal stream bed rushing hundreds of feet downhill into a driveway and home on Upper Highland Road near Eureka Canyon Road. A car and one side of a home were buried in about nine feet of rock, dirt, wood chunks and water. The home was severely damaged and deemed unsafe and uninhabitable. Over thirty Santa Cruz county roads were closed and damaged in flash flooding and debris flows in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Two people were rescued from a vehicle when they got stuck in water along Eureka Canyon Road. |
| January 2017 | Debris Flow | Corralitos | - | Mud slide at Freedom Blv and Hames Rd, 4 to 5 feet of mud in roadway. |
| January 2010 | Hail | Corralitos | - | A hail storm occurred in the mountains of Santa Cruz County. A report of one inch diameter hail came from a motorist traveling along Eureka canyon Road north of Corralitos. |
| February 2019 | Hail | Corralitos | - | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Flash Flood | Corralitos | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amesti | 2.2 miles | 27 | |
| Larkin Valley | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Aptos Hills | 3.4 miles | 27 | |
| Rob Roy Junction | 3.8 miles | 27 | |
| Freedom | 4.1 miles | 27 | |
| Day Valley | 4.4 miles | 23 | |
| Leonard (historical) | 4.6 miles | 27 | |
| Interlaken | 4.6 miles | 27 |
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 Corralitos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2339321 | 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 1658321. 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.











