Green Acres, California
36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Perris Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92545. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle. 2,918 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 82 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 figuresGreen Acres grew from 1,805 to 2,918 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 | 1,805 | |
| 2020 | 2,918 | +1,113 (+62%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 36 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 Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 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 Murrieta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Murrieta quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 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
- 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
709 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 709 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,363 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 65 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 | 333 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 182 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 65 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 43 |
| Smoking | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Riverside Unit | STATE |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Riverside Unit | GRAND |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Riverside Unit | POWERLINE |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Riverside Unit | ALLEN |
| 7 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Riverside Unit | LOCAL |
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Riverside Unit | ROCKY COVE DR MENI |
| 6 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres: 6 occurrences, 6 prospects, 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Silica, Manganese, Magnesite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pit | Granite | Producer | ||
| Rigers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Corundum Occurrence | Corundum, Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hemet Magnesite Mine | Magnesite | Prospect | ||
| Nichols Magnesite Deposit | Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Twin Buttes No. 1 Mine | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Twin Buttes No. 2 Mine | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Clark and Losekamp Deposit | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Clark and Losekamp Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Vista | 0.3 miles | 36 | |
| Homeland | 1.8 miles | 36 | |
| Juniper Springs | 2.0 miles | 36 | |
| Winchester | 2.2 miles | 36 | |
| Egan | 3.4 miles | 36 | |
| Menifee | 3.8 miles | 35 | |
| Romoland | 5.3 miles | 35 | |
| Hemet | 5.6 miles | 42 |
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 Green Acres | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5602264 | 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 1849312. 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.












