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Lockwood, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the San Ardo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93932. It lies near Wildcat Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Williams Hill quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Lockwood within Monterey County

Then and now

1919 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lockwood, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Lockwood, surveyed 1919

Population over time

2 figures

Lockwood fell from 379 to 368 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
2010379
2020368-11 (-3%)

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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Lockwood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,646 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitYASUTAKE
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitKELSE
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E 34
12 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitLOCKWOOD
11 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionJOLON
10 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCROSS
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitLOCKWOOD JOLON RD / MARTI
30 August 1998Debris and open burning35 acresCentral California DistrictCHILI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lockwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Blm Rock PileFlagstone, Stone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockwood in 2 storm reports in 1998: 2 flash flood. 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
February 1998Flash FloodLockwood-San Antoio River near Lockwood
February 1998Flash FloodLockwood-San Antonio River near Lockwood

Every storm 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
Martinus Corner1.9 miles25
Jolon5.3 miles24
Pleyto (historical)7.3 miles24
Pleyto7.5 miles24
Hunter-Liggett9.4 miles25
Bryson9.5 miles27
San Ardo10.8 miles25
Wunpost11.7 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 LockwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6315822The 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 1660933. 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.