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Green Valley, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Newhall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91390. It lies near Dowd Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Green Valley quadrangle. 1,036 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,936 feet above sea level.

Green Valley within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1915 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 80 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 Valley, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Green Valley, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Green Valley grew from 1,027 to 1,036 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
20101,027
20201,036+9 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Green Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71,189 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined62
Equipment and vehicle use57
Arson/incendiarism34
Recreation and ceremony15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Other causes9
Natural8
Smoking7
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks2
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 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAngeles National ForestMATCHES
7 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAngeles National ForestPORTAL
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAngeles National ForestCOPPERMILL
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined48 acresAngeles National ForestJOHNSON
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestNARANJO
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined283 acresAngeles National ForestMUNZ
4 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAngeles National Forestnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestPAPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Green Valley: 10 past producers, 7 occurrences, 5 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Graphite, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Bouquet Canyon DepositChromiumOccurrence
Double EagleGoldProspect
ClearwaterCopperProspect
Clearwater GroupCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Mercury OccurrenceMercuryProspect
Unnamed OccurrenceMercuryOccurrence
A. P. SchwarzStoneOccurrence
Black DiamondGraphitePast Producer
Bouquet Canyon TalcTalc-SoapstoneProspect
California Graphite Co.GraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles 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
Andrade Corner2.7 miles29
Lake Hughes4.2 miles28
Lincoln Crest6.3 miles29
Leona Valley6.7 miles30
Fairmont7.8 miles31
Las Cantilles8.1 miles30
Del Sur8.1 miles31
Sleepy Valley8.2 miles29

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5603360The 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 271423. 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.