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Interlaken, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Watsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95076. It stands on Casserly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Watsonville East quadrangle. 7,368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Interlaken within Santa Cruz 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 Interlaken, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Interlaken, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Interlaken grew from 7,321 to 7,368 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
20107,321
20207,368+47 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

394 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Interlaken between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined174
Equipment and vehicle use90
Debris and open burning55
Arson/incendiarism28
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Natural4
Other causes1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitPOLE LINE
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFREEDOM BL PAJARO_VALLEY
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGREEN
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitVALLEY
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEllicott Slough National Wildlife RefugeCARSON
9 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitP.G.& E. #17
8 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitPAULSEN
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitPARAISO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Interlaken: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium. 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
Mcfarland ChromiteChromiumProspect

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Johnston Corner2.2 miles27
Freedom2.4 miles27
Amesti2.5 miles27
Colache Town2.9 miles27
Watsonville3.1 miles27
Larkin Valley4.4 miles27
Corralitos4.6 miles27
Nuga (historical)5.1 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 InterlakenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q600900The 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 1867031. 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.