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Lucerne Valley, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Victorville-Hesperia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92356. It lies near Strawberry Peak. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne Valley quadrangle. 5,331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,953 feet above sea level.

Lucerne Valley within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lucerne Valley, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Lucerne Valley, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Lucerne Valley fell from 5,811 to 5,331 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
20105,811
20205,331-480 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Lucerne Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning23
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Smokingunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert District48
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitAGATE RD / CRYSTAL CREEK
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitTOPAZ
21 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitCARSON ST / CUSTER AV
17 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitCODY RD / SAGE ST
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lucerne Valley: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Limestone, General, Marble, 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
Cushenbury QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gold PointSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Hi-Grade Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marble CanyonLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionProducerLimestone, Marble
Silver Reef MineStone, DimensionUnknown
Yellow YuccaGoldPast Producer
Lucerne PlantLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Partin QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino 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
Fizzben Heights6.7 miles30
Cushenbury8.5 miles39
Oak Springs9.2 miles31
Thunderbird Ranches9.8 miles18
Lone Wolf Colony10.1 miles35
Ranchos del Oro10.4 miles35
Cotners Corner11.0 miles35
Fawnskin12.2 miles35

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 Lucerne ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458247The 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 272271. 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.