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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.

Lakeside within San Diego County

Then and now

1893 to 1996

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Lakeside, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Lakeside, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Lakeside 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.

YearPeople Change
201020,648
202021,152+504 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 surveys from 42 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

554 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined289
Equipment and vehicle use151
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking18
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitBLOSSOM
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitJENNINGS
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitWILDCAT CANYON RD / MUT 4
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Diego UnitCREEK
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictVICENTE
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictWILLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coyote Mountains Nickel ProspectNickelOccurrenceGarnierite
Coyote Mtn Gypsum & SSulfur, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducerGypsum
Fletcher DepositUranium, ThoriumProspect
Iron MasterIronOccurrenceVein
Lakeside Lime and Marl DepositLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Rose QuarryQuartzProducer
Red Rose QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Echo MineMolybdenumOccurrence
FernbrookMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite
WoolseyMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2004Flash FloodLakeside$80,000no account filed
November 2023LightningLakeside-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 2003WildfireLakeside-no account filed
November 2002FloodLakeside-no account filed
November 2002FloodLakeside-no account filed
June 2002WildfireLakeside-no account filed
July 2002WildfireLakeside-no account filed
December 2001WildfireLakeside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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
Riverview0.5 miles42
Riverview Farms1.0 miles42
Moreno1.1 miles42
Lakeside Farms1.2 miles42
Lakeview1.4 miles42
Johnstown1.9 miles42
Winter Gardens1.9 miles42
Glenview1.9 miles42

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 LakesideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2499052The 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.