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Las Lomas, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Pajaro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95076. It stands on Carneros Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prunedale quadrangle. 3,046 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Las Lomas within Monterey County

Then and now

1915 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Las Lomas, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Las Lomas, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Las Lomas grew from 3,024 to 3,046 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
20103,024
20203,046+22 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

361 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 361 fires within 5 miles of Las Lomas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined135
Equipment and vehicle use104
Debris and open burning47
Arson/incendiarism28
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Natural1
Other causes1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitSAN ANDREAS
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitELKHORN
9 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitP.G.& E. #17
8 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitSHERRY
8 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitTHURWACHTER
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E 31
7 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003655
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMELUGAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey 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 Las Lomas: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monterey Bay Salt WorksSaltProducer
Triumph Steel CoTitaniumOccurrence
Unnamed MineStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Monterey 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
Watsonville Junction2.1 miles27
Pajaro2.8 miles27
Elkhorn2.8 miles25
Vega (historical)3.2 miles27
Dunbarton (historical)4.7 miles25
Moss Landing5.0 miles26
Moss5.3 miles26
Oak Hills6.1 miles25

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 Las LomasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460997The 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 1655082. 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.