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Lake Nacimiento, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Paso Robles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93446. The Survey maps it on the Lime Mountain quadrangle. 2,956 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Lake Nacimiento within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1919 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Nacimiento, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Lake Nacimiento, surveyed 1919

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Nacimiento grew from 2,411 to 2,956 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
20102,411
20202,956+545 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Lake Nacimiento between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,567 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined52
Equipment and vehicle use36
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Natural1

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 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitRESORT
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitRUNNING DEER RANCH SLO_CO
6 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitNACIMIENTO
6 September 1992Smokingunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitRESORT
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitDAM
28 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitLAKE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitNACIMIENTO RESORT LODGES
25 September 1999Natural6.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitCHIMNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Nacimiento: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Oro FinoGold, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Unnamed QuarryPumicePast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo 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
Bee Rock5.1 miles24
Adelaida5.7 miles26
Klau7.1 miles22
McKay9.0 miles21
Old Adobe9.5 miles27
San Miguel9.9 miles21
Wellsona10.1 miles27
San Lawrence Terrace10.5 miles27

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 Lake NacimientoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576559The 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 1867034. 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.