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Lomita Park, California

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the South San Francisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94066. The Survey maps it on the Montara Mountain quadrangle. It stands 25 feet above sea level.

Lomita Park within San Mateo County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lomita Park, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Lomita Park, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 43 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

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Lomita Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,321 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined171
Smoking36
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural1
Fireworks1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBRUNO
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCHESTNUT 2
7 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitA1
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Mateo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Lomita Park: 14 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Zinc. 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
Brisbane QuarryStoneProducer
Calif. AggregatesCalciumPast Producer
Marine Magnes Div.MagnesiteProducer
Marine Magnes Div.MagnesitePast Producer
Marine Magnesium Co. Seawater PlantMagnesiteProducer
RockawayCalciumProducer
RockawayCalciumPast Producer
South San Fran. Land & Imp. Co.Silver, Lead, ZincProducer
South San Fran. Land & Imp. Co.Silver, Lead, ZincPast Producer
South San Francisco Land & Improvement CompanySilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1919

Every working recorded in San Mateo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lomita Park in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 2 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
January 2020FloodLomita Park-Roadway flooding at I-280 N and Millbrae Ave off ramp.
April 2018FloodLomita Park-US 101 NB at SFO large flooding number 1 lane.

Every storm recorded in San Mateo 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
San Bruno1.0 miles43
Millbrae Meadows1.2 miles43
Millbrae1.5 miles43
Tanforan1.6 miles43
South San Francisco2.6 miles43
Baden2.8 miles43
Burlingame3.0 miles43
Hillsborough3.2 miles43

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 Lomita ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14683157The 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 1659744. 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.