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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.

East Hemet within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The 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.

Topographic sheet of East Hemet, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of East Hemet, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

East 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.

YearPeople Change
201017,418
202019,432+2,014 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 42 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

938 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined433
Arson/incendiarism134
Equipment and vehicle use123
Misuse of fire by a minor97
Debris and open burning58
Smoking54
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony14
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside Unitnot named
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresRiverside UnitW RAMONA EXPRESSWAY SAN
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitJOHNSTON AV HEM
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestRIVER
8 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRiverside UnitPINE
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreRiverside UnitDOVERWOOD PL HEM
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitS MISTLETOE AV SANJ
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hemet Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Hubbard LimestoneLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Soboba Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Wm Shelton ProspectUranium, GemstoneOccurrence
Bautista Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hemet Magnesite MineMagnesiteOccurrenceSurface
Juaro Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nichols Magnesite DepositMagnesiteOccurrence
Riverside Co. Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rogers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside 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
Ramona Bowl1.5 miles42
Lake Crest Estates1.7 miles42
Hemet1.8 miles42
Valle Vista2.5 miles42
San Jacinto3.2 miles39
Egan3.9 miles36
Soboba Hot Springs4.2 miles39
Valley Vista7.1 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 East HemetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976954The 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.