Lakeside, California
42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the San Diego census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92040. It stands on Los Coches Creek. The Survey maps it on the El Cajon quadrangle. 21,152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1893 to 1996The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1893 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresLakeside grew from 20,648 to 21,152 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20,648 | |
| 2020 | 21,152 | +504 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
18 surveys from 42 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Elcajon quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Elcajon quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Cuyamaca quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1903 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Elcajon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1939 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1967 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1979 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS El Cajon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
554 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 554 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,614 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined | 289 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 151 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | BLOSSOM |
| 8 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | JENNINGS |
| 5 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | WILDCAT CANYON RD / MUT 4 |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Diego Unit | CREEK |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | VICENTE |
| 4 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | California Desert District | WILLOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 74 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Lakeside: 49 past producers, 18 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coyote Mountains Nickel Prospect | Nickel | Occurrence | Garnierite | |
| Coyote Mtn Gypsum & S | Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | Gypsum | |
| Fletcher Deposit | Uranium, Thorium | Prospect | ||
| Iron Master | Iron | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lakeside Lime and Marl Deposit | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Red Rose Quarry | Quartz | Producer | ||
| Red Rose Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Echo Mine | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Fernbrook | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Molybdenite | |
| Woolsey | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Molybdenite |
Storms near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeside in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 4 wildfire, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Flash Flood | Lakeside | $80,000 | no account filed |
| November 2023 | Lightning | Lakeside | - | Barona Fire reports power pole struck by lightning, and transformer caught fire and burned 1/8 acre of vegetation at the end of Mapleview Drive. |
| May 2003 | Wildfire | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Flood | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Flood | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Wildfire | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
| December 2001 | Wildfire | Lakeside | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | 0.5 miles | 42 | |
| Riverview Farms | 1.0 miles | 42 | |
| Moreno | 1.1 miles | 42 | |
| Lakeside Farms | 1.2 miles | 42 | |
| Lakeview | 1.4 miles | 42 | |
| Johnstown | 1.9 miles | 42 | |
| Winter Gardens | 1.9 miles | 42 | |
| Glenview | 1.9 miles | 42 |
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 Lakeside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2499052 | The 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 1656556. 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.

















