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Lexington Hills, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lexington Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95033. It lies near Moody Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Los Gatos quadrangle. 2,492 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Lexington Hills within Santa Clara County

Then and now

1916 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lexington Hills, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Lexington Hills, surveyed 1916

Population over time

2 figures

Lexington Hills grew from 2,421 to 2,492 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
20102,421
20202,492+71 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Lexington Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,519 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined139
Equipment and vehicle use89
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism20
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony9
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 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitLOST
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitSUMMIT
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSUMMIT RESTAURANT BURRELL
6 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitPG&E #22
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitSUNSET
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitSUMMIT
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Clara County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lexington Hills: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
AlmaStoneProspect
Hooker CreekCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceMalachite
Hooker CreekCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Jb KingClayUnknown
John Knorr MineStone, DimensionUnknown
Douglas RanchCalciumProducer
Douglas RanchCalciumPast Producer
Lexington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Los Gatos Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Los Gatos Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Clara 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
Aldercroft Heights0.3 miles24
Chemeketa Park0.4 miles24
Holy City0.6 miles24
Redwood Estates0.9 miles24
Lexington (historical)2.3 miles24
Los Gatos4.3 miles24
Rinconada4.3 miles24
Shannon4.7 miles24

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 Lexington HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2684293The 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 1867036. 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.