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La Habra, California

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90631. The Survey maps it on the La Habra quadrangle. 63,097 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

La Habra within Orange 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, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of La Habra, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

La Habra grew from 2,273 to 63,097 between 1930 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
19302,273
201060,239
202063,097+2,858 (+5%)

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

230 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of La Habra between 2005 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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/undetermined130
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Smoking16
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Geothermal. 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
W. H. RussellClayOccurrence
J. A. Houlihan PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
La Habra Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
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 Orange County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Habra in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
March 2022Heavy RainLa Habra-Heavy rain began on the morning of March 28th and continued through the afternoon on March 29th. Rainfall of 0.50 to 1.00 inches fell across much of coastal and inland valley locations in Orange County, with far southeastern portions of Orange County as well as the foothills and mountains receiving upwards of 1.50 to 2.00 inches.
February 1998FloodLa Habra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Des Moines1.1 miles47
Sunny Hills2.2 miles47
Brea2.7 miles47
Oleo (historical)3.7 miles48
Brea Chem4.2 miles46
Fullerton4.4 miles44
Northam (historical)4.5 miles45
Fuller Park4.7 miles44

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 HabraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q948071The 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 1652735. 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.