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Julian, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Palomar-Julian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92036. It lies near Eastwood Hill. The Survey maps it on the Julian quadrangle. 1,768 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,226 feet above sea level.

Julian within San Diego County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Julian, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Julian, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

On record in Julian

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

Julian grew from 1,502 to 1,768 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
20101,502
20201,768+266 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 34 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Julian between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70,620 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined91
Equipment and vehicle use58
Debris and open burning31
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitENGINEER
8 September 1996Natural1.0 acresSan Diego UnitFELIPE # 1
8 September 1996Natural4.0 acresSan Diego UnitFELIPE # 2
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Diego UnitLANE
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitHIESE
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use685 acresSan Diego UnitVOLCAN
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictOFILA
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHEMBORG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 123 workings within 5 miles of Julian: 38 producers, 32 occurrences, 31 past producers, 21 prospects. 38 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Nickel, Tellurium, Copper. 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
Foster QuarryStoneProducer
Foster QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Friday Copper Co ClaimCobalt, Copper, NickelProspect
Friday DepositNickel, Iron, Cobalt, CopperProspect
Friday MineCopper, Nickel, Cobalt, Palladium, Platinum, IridiumOccurrence1885
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kentwood Scheelite ClaimTungstenOccurrence
OwensGold, Copper, SilverPast ProducerVein
Owens MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Owens Old OwensmineGold, Copper, SilverProducer

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Julian in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 8 flash flood, 5 heavy rain, 4 wildfire, 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 39 injuries. 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
September 2001LightningJulian1 killed, 1 hurtno account filed
August 2002WildfireJulian38 hurt, $10,000,000no account filed
July 2002WildfireJulian$2,000,000no account filed
August 2002WildfireJulian$750,000no account filed
December 2004Flash FloodJulian$100,000Numerous roads impacted by mudslides and flash flooding.
December 2004Thunderstorm WindJulian$50,000A wind gust of 69 mph was measured at Julian. Strong winds knocked over many trees.
July 2004Flash FloodJulian$50,000no account filed
August 2003Flash FloodJulian$30,000no account filed
July 1999Tornado (F0)Julian$25,000A building under construction and a 15 foot water tower were destroyed. Shingles were torn off and a chimney damaged on four other buildings. Several shallow rooted trees were pushed over. A nearby anemometer recorded wind speeds of 40 and 43 mph between 1730 and 1800 PST.
July 2005LightningJulian$10,000Lightning sparked about 15 fires across the county and burned 150 acres.
August 1999Flash FloodJulian$10,000A road was partially washed out off of Highway 79.
August 2005Flash FloodJulian$5,000A thunderstorm caused a mudslide at Sunrise Highway and SR79.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindJulian$2,000The Warners mesonet station reported wind gusts of 52 and 59 mph between 1240 and 1310 PST due to a thunderstorm. Nearby, the Mataguay mesonet station recorded wind gusts of 56 and 58 mph between 1240 and 1300 PST. A san diego county official reported trees down on Valley View and Deer Creek Trail Roads.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindJulian$1,000The Mataguay mesonet station recorded a peak wind gust of 56 mph between 1230 and 1250 PST. Nearby, a large tree limb was broken off and laying by Highway 79.
January 2023Debris FlowJulian-The Department of Highways reported large boulders in the road on SR-78 and Wynola Road near Julian. That area had received 2 to 3 inches of rain in the preceeding 24 hours.
March 2023Debris FlowJulian-The Department of Highways announced the closure of Highway 78 between Wynola Road and the Banner Store due to a mudslide in the eastbound lanes.
August 2022Heavy RainJulian-Mesonet station VCNC1 2.8mi north of Julian at Volcan Mountain measured 1.01 inches of rain in 1 hour.
August 2021Heavy RainJulian-Volcan Mountain measures 1.26 inches of rain.
July 2005Flash FloodJulian-Flash Flooding was reported on Banner Rd.
July 2005Heavy RainJulian-A 36 minute rainfall total of 0.72 inches was measured just north of Lake Cuyamaca.
August 2004Heavy RainJulian-A line of thunderstorms dropped 0.66" in 11 minutes in San Felipe Valley.
August 2004Heavy RainJulian-A line of thunderstorms just northeast of Julian dropped 0.63" of rain in only eight minutes on Volcan Mountain.
July 2006HailJulian-no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodJulian-no account filed
September 2003HailJulian-no account filed
June 2001WildfireJulian-no account filed
September 2001Flash FloodJulian-no account filed

Every storm 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
Branson (historical)0.8 miles34
Whispering Pines1.0 miles34
Kentwood-In-The-Pines1.5 miles34
Pine Hills2.6 miles34
Wynola2.7 miles34
Banner3.0 miles34
Harrison Park4.0 miles34
Santa Ysabel4.3 miles34

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 JulianAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q691469The 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 1652732. 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.