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Guadalupe, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Guadalupe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93434. The Survey maps it on the Guadalupe quadrangle. 8,057 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Guadalupe within Santa Barbara County

Then and now

1905 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Guadalupe, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Guadalupe, surveyed 1905

On record in Guadalupe

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Guadalupe grew from 7,080 to 8,057 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
20107,080
20208,057+977 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Guadalupe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSLU 2993
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitTEFFT
26 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitDUNE
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitALBERT
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitTRILOGY
14 September 2014Recreation and ceremony13 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitINDIANA
11 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitWILLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Guadalupe: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Gemstone. 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
Betteravia PlantCalciumProducer
Guadalupe Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone Canyon Jasper DepositGemstoneProspect

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guadalupe in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 rip current. The reports record 2 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2002Rip CurrentGuadalupe2 killedTwo men who were fishing along Guadalupe Beach were swept out to sea by a large wave. Both men were presumed dead.
January 2023Flash FloodGuadalupe-Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding on Highway 1 near the Quintana Road.
December 2014Flash FloodGuadalupe-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the community of Guadalupe. Three vehicles were trapped when a roadway flooded due to the heavy rain.
November 1997Thunderstorm WindGuadalupe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara 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
Barsug1.0 miles27
Bragur2.8 miles27
Betteravia Junction3.7 miles27
Iremel4.1 miles27
Carr4.2 miles27
Waldorf4.3 miles27
Gum4.5 miles27
Betteravia4.8 miles27

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 GuadalupeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24335The 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 1652715. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.