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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.

Corralitos within Santa Cruz County

Then and now

1912 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Corralitos, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Corralitos, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Corralitos 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,326
20202,342+16 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

556 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined267
Equipment and vehicle use123
Debris and open burning73
Arson/incendiarism37
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking7
Natural4

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitPOLE LINE
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFREEDOM BL PAJARO_VALLEY
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGREEN
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionLAGOON
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitVALLEY
9 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitEUREKA CANYON RD CORR 23
9 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitPALMER
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEllicott Slough National Wildlife RefugeCARSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Triumph Steel CoIron, Chromium, TitaniumOccurrence
Cabrillo Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pleasant Valley ExcavationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pleasant Valley ExcavationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rubis Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Titus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2009Flash FloodCorralitos$3,000,000A 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 2017Debris FlowCorralitos-Mud slide at Freedom Blv and Hames Rd, 4 to 5 feet of mud in roadway.
January 2010HailCorralitos-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 2019HailCorralitos-no account filed
December 1996Flash FloodCorralitos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Amesti2.2 miles27
Larkin Valley3.1 miles27
Aptos Hills3.4 miles27
Rob Roy Junction3.8 miles27
Freedom4.1 miles27
Day Valley4.4 miles23
Leonard (historical)4.6 miles27
Interlaken4.6 miles27

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 CorralitosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2339321The 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.