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Daly City, California

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the South San Francisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94014. The Survey maps it on the San Francisco South quadrangle. 104,901 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Daly City within San Mateo County

Then and now

1892 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Daly City, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Daly City, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Daly City grew from 101,123 to 104,901 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
2010101,123
2020104,901+3,778 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 surveys from 43 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

364 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 364 fires within 5 miles of Daly City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,944 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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/undetermined212
Smoking43
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Smoking200 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaHWY 1 VEG
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBRUNO
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCHESTNUT 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Mateo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Daly City: 14 past producers, 11 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Zinc. 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
Mining Claim Loc. Quicksilver Fnd.MercuryProspect
Unnamed LocationGypsum-AnhydriteProducerSedimentary
Unnamed LocationGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceMercuryOccurrence1892
Black MountainGoldPast Producer
Black Mtn.GoldPast ProducerGold
Brisbane QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
South San Fran. Land & Imp. Co.Silver, Lead, ZincProducer

Every working recorded in San Mateo County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daly City in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
December 2025FloodDaly City-Roadway flooding was reported on the offramp from northbound US Highway 101 to the Candlestick Point area.
September 2017HailDaly City-Social media post on twitter from the public reports small hail as well as lightning near San Francisco.
September 2017LightningDaly City-Social media post on twitter from the public reports small hail as well as lightning near San Francisco.

Every storm recorded in San Mateo 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
Westlake1.1 miles43
Broadmoor Village1.5 miles43
Broadmoor1.7 miles43
Colma2.0 miles43
Sholun2.5 miles43
Bayshore2.6 miles43
Brisbane3.7 miles43
Edgemar3.9 miles43

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 Daly CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q370925The 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 1658369. 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.