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Jacumba Hot Springs, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mountain Empire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91934. It stands on Boundary Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacumba OE S quadrangle. 540 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,212 feet above sea level.

Jacumba Hot Springs within San Diego County

Then and now

1931 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jacumba Hot Springs, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Jacumba Hot Springs, surveyed 1931

Population over time

2 figures

Jacumba Hot Springs fell from 561 to 540 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
2010561
2020540-21 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Jacumba Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,172 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined65
Equipment and vehicle use29
Natural9
Firearms and explosives use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictJACUMBA
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionOLD 2
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitCARRIZO GORGE RD JACU 18
25 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictJACUMBA 2
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitTOE
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictCARRIZO
18 September 1994Fireworks10 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictJOSHUA
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGORGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Jacumba Hot Springs: 13 prospects, 13 past producers, 10 occurrences, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Tungsten, Silica, Feldspar. 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
Atomic Flat GroupUranium, ThoriumProspect
Carrizo Gorge DepositWollastoniteOccurrence
Circle Group DepositVermiculitePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jacumba Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Mcguffie Foundation DepositPumicePast Producer
Mica Gem GroupMica, Silica, TungstenPast Producer
UnnamedNickel, CopperProspect
Gibson DepositQuartzProducer
Hubble WeaverdepositStoneProducer

Every working recorded in San Diego 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
Titus1.2 miles20
Bankhead Springs3.6 miles20
Boulevard5.5 miles19
Calexico Lodge5.9 miles19
Manzanita6.4 miles19
Tierra del Sol7.0 miles18
Mortero Palms7.3 miles20
Live Oak Springs9.2 miles19

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 Jacumba Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013190The 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 243981. 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.