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La Conchita, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ventura census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93001. It lies near Rincon Island. The Survey maps it on the Pitas Point quadrangle. 338 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

La Conchita within Ventura County

Then and now

1904 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of La Conchita, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of La Conchita, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of La Conchita between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4,774 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use30 acresLos Padres National ForestCASITAS
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
22 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,500 acresFort Hunter LiggettMISSION
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ventura 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
Mussel Shoals0.5 miles27
Rincon1.8 miles27
Sea Cliff2.0 miles27
Los Pitos (historical)4.3 miles27
Faria4.4 miles27
Dulah5.8 miles29
Casitas Springs7.5 miles29
Foster Park7.5 miles29

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 La ConchitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11109486The 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 1661263. 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.