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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.

Green Acres within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Green Acres, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Green Acres, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Green 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,805
20202,918+1,113 (+62%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

709 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined333
Equipment and vehicle use182
Arson/incendiarism65
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Smoking31
Debris and open burning30
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural4
Firearms and explosives use1

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 use1.0 acresRiverside UnitSTATE
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitGRAND
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitPOWERLINE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresRiverside UnitALLEN
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresRiverside UnitLOCAL
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreRiverside UnitROCKY COVE DR MENI
6 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia 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 of 21 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
PitGraniteProducer
Rigers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Corundum OccurrenceCorundum, GemstoneOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hemet Magnesite MineMagnesiteProspect
Nichols Magnesite DepositMagnesiteProducer
Twin Buttes No. 1 MineGoldProspect
Twin Buttes No. 2 MineGoldProspect
Clark and Losekamp DepositManganeseOccurrence
Clark and Losekamp ProspectManganeseOccurrence

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
Valley Vista0.3 miles36
Homeland1.8 miles36
Juniper Springs2.0 miles36
Winchester2.2 miles36
Egan3.4 miles36
Menifee3.8 miles35
Romoland5.3 miles35
Hemet5.6 miles42

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 AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5602264The 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.