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La Habra Heights, California

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Whittier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90631. The Survey maps it on the La Habra quadrangle. 5,682 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

La Habra Heights within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 Habra Heights, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of La Habra Heights, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

La Habra Heights grew from 4,786 to 5,682 between 1980 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
19804,786
20105,325
20205,682+357 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 47 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

304 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of La Habra Heights between 2005 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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/undetermined185
Arson/incendiarism36
Smoking28
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of La Habra Heights: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Geothermal, Calcium. 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
Alvardo Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
City of Industry PlantCalciumProducer
W. H. RussellClayOccurrence
J. A. Houlihan PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Lindauer & SopnsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lindauer CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lindauer DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Murphy RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Murphy RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles 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
Hacienda Heights2.4 miles47
Rowland Heights2.6 miles47
Friendly Hills2.9 miles47
Leffingwell2.9 miles47
Rowland3.0 miles36
East La Mirada3.2 miles47
Colima3.5 miles47
East Whittier3.6 miles47

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 Habra HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q143269The 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 1660854. 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.