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Diamond Bar, California

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East San Gabriel Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91765. It stands on South San Jose Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Dimas quadrangle. 55,072 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Diamond Bar within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1894 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Diamond Bar, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Diamond Bar, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Diamond Bar fell from 55,544 to 55,072 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
201055,544
202055,072-472 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 36 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

459 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 459 fires within 5 miles of Diamond Bar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined287
Smoking49
Arson/incendiarism48
Equipment and vehicle use39
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Diamond Bar: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Clay. 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
Featherstone DepositDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Featherstone DepositDiatomitePast Producer
Pomona Brick CoClayProspectSedimentary
Pomona Brick Co.ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamond Bar in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2000: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2000Thunderstorm WindDiamond Bar-no account filed
September 1998Flash FloodDiamond Bar-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindDiamond Bar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles 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
Spadra1.7 miles36
Walnut3.0 miles36
Pomona3.6 miles36
Woodside Village4.8 miles37
Otterbein4.9 miles48
South San Jose Hills5.1 miles36
North Pomona5.3 miles36
Marne5.3 miles36

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 Diamond BarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q768449The 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 1660549. 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.