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.
Then and now
1919 to 1980The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresLockwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 379 | |
| 2020 | 368 | -11 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Williams Hill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Bryson quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
79 since 1992Regional 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 use | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | YASUTAKE |
| 24 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | KELSE |
| 24 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PG&E 34 |
| 12 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | LOCKWOOD |
| 11 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | JOLON |
| 10 September 2010 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CROSS |
| 30 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | LOCKWOOD JOLON RD / MARTI |
| 30 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Central California District | CHILI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blm Rock Pile | Flagstone, Stone, Dimension | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Lockwood | - | San Antoio River near Lockwood |
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Lockwood | - | San Antonio River near Lockwood |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martinus Corner | 1.9 miles | 25 | |
| Jolon | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Pleyto (historical) | 7.3 miles | 24 | |
| Pleyto | 7.5 miles | 24 | |
| Hunter-Liggett | 9.4 miles | 25 | |
| Bryson | 9.5 miles | 27 | |
| San Ardo | 10.8 miles | 25 | |
| Wunpost | 11.7 miles | 24 |
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 Lockwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6315822 | The 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.











