East Hemet, California
42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Hemet-San Jacinto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92544. It lies near Park Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hemet quadrangle. 19,432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,690 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1996The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresEast Hemet grew from 17,418 to 19,432 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 | 17,418 | |
| 2020 | 19,432 | +2,014 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 42 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.
- 1901 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Hemet quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Hemet quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Hemet quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Hemet quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1996 USGS Hemet quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
938 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 938 fires within 5 miles of East Hemet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,078 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 134 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/undetermined | 433 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 134 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 123 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 97 |
| Debris and open burning | 58 |
| Smoking | 54 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Riverside Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Riverside Unit | W RAMONA EXPRESSWAY SAN |
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Riverside Unit | JOHNSTON AV HEM |
| 8 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino National Forest | RIVER |
| 8 September 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Riverside Unit | PINE |
| 7 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Riverside Unit | DOVERWOOD PL HEM |
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Riverside Unit | S MISTLETOE AV SANJ |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of East Hemet: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemet Silica Mine | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Hubbard Limestone | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Soboba Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Wm Shelton Prospect | Uranium, Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Bautista Canyon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hemet Magnesite Mine | Magnesite | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Juaro Canyon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Nichols Magnesite Deposit | Magnesite | Occurrence | ||
| Riverside Co. Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rogers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramona Bowl | 1.5 miles | 42 | |
| Lake Crest Estates | 1.7 miles | 42 | |
| Hemet | 1.8 miles | 42 | |
| Valle Vista | 2.5 miles | 42 | |
| San Jacinto | 3.2 miles | 39 | |
| Egan | 3.9 miles | 36 | |
| Soboba Hot Springs | 4.2 miles | 39 | |
| Valley Vista | 7.1 miles | 36 |
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 East Hemet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976954 | 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 1867016. 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.














