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Los Berros, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Arroyo Grande census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93420. It lies in Los Berros Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Oceano quadrangle. 623 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Los Berros within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1897 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Los Berros, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Los Berros, surveyed 1897

Population over time

2 figures

Los Berros fell from 641 to 623 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
2010641
2020623-18 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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

500 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 500 fires within 5 miles of Los Berros between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,206 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined233
Equipment and vehicle use137
Debris and open burning43
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Smoking16
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural2
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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitTEFFT
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitBURTON
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitEWING
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionWILLOW
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitLOS BERROS RD / POMEROY R
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitTEFFT
5 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitSLU 2313
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitEMS3CDF/

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Los Berros: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gemstone, 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
Arroyo Grande Creek DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Caen QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Los Berros CanyonUraniumOccurrence
Newsome Marl DepositCalciumOccurrence
Stone Canyon Jasper DepositGemstoneProspect
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Caen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo 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.

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 Los BerrosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5979386The 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 1662320. 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.