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Lemon Heights, California

46 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 92705. It lies near Red Hill. The Survey maps it on the Orange quadrangle.

Lemon Heights 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 Lemon Heights, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Lemon Heights, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 46 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

163 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Lemon Heights between 1995 and 2020, burning about 647 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking17
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresCleveland National ForestIRVINE
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
19 September 2016Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 August 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Lemon Heights: 11 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Calcium, Barium-Barite. 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
Red Hill MineMercury, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Santa Ana PlantCalciumProducer
Red Hill MineMercuryPast Producer1927
Blue Diamond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
El Toro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Irvine Lake Rock Plant # 71Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orange County Rock Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemon Heights in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 wildfire. 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
October 1996WildfireLemon Heights$3,000,000no 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
North Tustin0.7 miles46
Cowan Heights1.4 miles46
Panorama Heights1.6 miles46
La Paloma1.9 miles46
Browning2.1 miles47
Myford2.1 miles47
Hewes Park2.3 miles46
El Modena2.5 miles46

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.

Wikidata item Q122548598The 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 1660903. 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.