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Edna, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the San Luis Obispo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93401. It stands on East Corral de Piedra Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arroyo Grande NE quadrangle. 184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Edna within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edna, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Edna, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Edna fell from 193 to 184 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
2010193
2020184-9 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 34 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Edna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,642 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined143
Equipment and vehicle use116
Debris and open burning22
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSLU 3082
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitCASLU04171
6 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Luis Obispo Unitnot named
4 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitTIFFANY
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitONTARIO RD / SAN LUIS BAY
3 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitTANK
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBRIDGE CREEK RD SLO_CO
29 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Edna: 9 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 past producers, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Manganese, Pumice. 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
3 Bar 5 Ranch PitStone, DimensionProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Isom ProspectManganese, ChromiumProspect1918
Owen GroupUraniumProducer
San Luis Brick Works, Inc.ClayProducer
Unnamed Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Yoakum TractGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Yoakum TractCopper, Silver, GoldProspect
Unnamed Pumice OccurrencePumiceOccurrence
Unnamed Pumice OccurrencePumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo 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
Maxwellton (historical)0.2 miles34
Asphalt Mines (historical)0.7 miles34
Steele (historical)0.8 miles34
Tiber1.8 miles34
Reeds (historical)2.0 miles34
Verde3.7 miles34
Pismo Beach4.5 miles32
Shell Beach4.6 miles32

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 EdnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5340005The 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 271017. 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.