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Homeland, 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 92548. It lies near Double Butte. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle. 6,772 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,604 feet above sea level.

Homeland 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 Homeland, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Homeland, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Homeland grew from 5,969 to 6,772 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
20105,969
20206,772+803 (+13%)

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

887 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 887 fires within 5 miles of Homeland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,558 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 77 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/undetermined409
Equipment and vehicle use229
Arson/incendiarism77
Misuse of fire by a minor66
Smoking44
Debris and open burning33
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitDESERT TERRACE DR MENI
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
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
8 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresRiverside UnitSTATE
7 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRiverside UnitQUAKING ASPEN WY MENI
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresRiverside UnitALLEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside 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 Homeland: 8 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Silica, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ritchie & PaulsonBeryllium, Mica, TantalumOccurrence
Unnamed Corundum OccurrenceCorundum, GemstoneOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rigers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverside Co. Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Romoland GroupGoldProspect
Twin Buttes No. 1 MineGoldProspect
Twin Buttes No. 2 MineGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homeland in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
October 2015Tornado (EF0)Homeland-Numerous reports through the broadcast media and social media of a brief landspout near Menifee. The funnel was nearly stationary and occurred over open terrain, with no damage reported.
June 2001WildfireHomeland-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Homeland-no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudHomeland-no account filed

Every storm 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
Green Acres1.8 miles36
Valley Vista1.9 miles36
Juniper Springs2.1 miles36
Menifee2.2 miles35
Winchester2.8 miles36
Romoland3.5 miles35
Nuevo4.5 miles35
Menifee Lakes5.0 miles35

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 HomelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2320430The 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 1652723. 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.