Loma Mar, California
36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Half Moon Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94021. It stands on Bloomquist Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Honda quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1902 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresLoma Mar grew from 113 to 134 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 | 113 | |
| 2020 | 134 | +21 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 surveys from 36 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.
- 1902 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1940 USGS Halfmoon Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Halfmoon Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS La Honda quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Half Moon Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Honda quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Palo Alto quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1991 USGS La Honda quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS La Honda quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Loma Mar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | BUTANO |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | RIDGEWOOD |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | JONES GLUCH # 2 |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | JONES GLUCH #1 |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | HASKINS |
| 8 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | DRISCOLL |
| 8 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit | P.G.& E.#12B |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BURNS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loma Mar in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 debris flow. The reports record 1 death. 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 1997 | Flash Flood | Loma Mar | 1 killed | no account filed |
| December 2012 | Flash Flood | Loma Mar | $500 | The water level on Corralitos Creek gauge at Freedom reached 11.61 feet. At this location, minor flooding begins above 11.5 feet. |
| February 2017 | Debris Flow | Loma Mar | - | Tree down amongst slide at Pescadero Creek Rd near Loma Mar Ave. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dearborn Park | 1.0 miles | 36 | |
| Butano Park | 2.8 miles | 38 | |
| Bellvale | 2.9 miles | 36 | |
| Redwood Terrace | 3.1 miles | 36 | |
| La Honda | 3.8 miles | 36 | |
| Pescadero | 4.0 miles | 38 | |
| San Gregorio | 5.7 miles | 38 | |
| Vista Verde | 7.6 miles | 52 |
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 Loma Mar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3476529 | 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 1658998. 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.
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.


















