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Cuyama, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuyama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93254. The Survey maps it on the Cuyama quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,293 feet above sea level.

Cuyama within Santa Barbara County

Then and now

1902 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cuyama, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Cuyama, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Cuyama fell from 57 to 37 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
201057
202037-20 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Cuyama between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,601 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 August 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresCentral California DistrictGREAT
8 July 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictCOX
3 July 1996Debris and open burning1,590 acresCentral California DistrictCUYAMA
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSanta Barbara County Fire Departmentnot named
18 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0110
30 June 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresCentral California DistrictCHIPAS
29 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use15 acresLos Padres National ForestHENDELES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuyama in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2016Flash FloodCuyama-California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding and mud and debris flows around the intersection of Highway2 33 and 166. Several vehicles were trapped in mud.
May 2006HailCuyama-A trained weather spotter reported nickel-size hail in the community of Cuyama.
May 2006HailCuyama-A trained spotter in Cuyama reported nickel-size hail from a severe thunderstorm.
July 1999WildfireCuyama-A wildfire burnt 14,537 acres in the Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County. The fire was ignited by sparks from a bulldozer.

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara 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
New Cuyama3.8 miles24
Ventucopa10.5 miles28
Junction Camp23.9 miles29
Cachuma Village31.3 miles29
Los Olivos32.3 miles26
Santa Ynez33.1 miles26
Ballard33.5 miles26
Mission Canyon33.8 miles21

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 CuyamaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458868The 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 241184. 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.