Dana Point, California
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the South Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92629. It stands on San Juan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dana Point quadrangle. 33,107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Dana Point
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 1 record
- VIRGINIA (sloop)listed 1991
Population over time
2 figuresDana Point fell from 33,351 to 33,107 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 | 33,351 | |
| 2020 | 33,107 | -244 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 32 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.
- 1902 USGS Capistrano quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1906 USGS Capistrano quadrangle1:125000
- 1942 USGS San Juan Capistrano quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Dana Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Dana Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Dana Point quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1974 USGS Dana Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Oceanside quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
54 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Dana Point between 1994 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 5 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 28 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 23 August 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 350 acres | San Bernardino National Forest | WATERMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dana Point: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capistrano Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Capistrano Deposit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Crestline Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capistrano Beach | 1.4 miles | 32 | |
| Three Arch Bay | 2.4 miles | 32 | |
| San Juan Capistrano | 3.0 miles | 37 | |
| South Laguna | 3.3 miles | 37 | |
| Laguna Niguel | 3.9 miles | 37 | |
| San Clemente | 5.3 miles | 30 | |
| Rancho Mission Viejo | 5.9 miles | 42 | |
| Top of the World | 6.4 miles | 44 |
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 Dana Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q852638 | 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 1656474. 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.














