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Lytle Creek, California

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Mount Baldy-Wrightwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92358. It stands on Sheep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cajon quadrangle. 725 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,419 feet above sea level.

Lytle Creek within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Lytle Creek, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Lytle Creek, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Lytle Creek grew from 701 to 725 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
2010701
2020725+24 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 33 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

666 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 666 fires within 5 miles of Lytle Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59,775 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 57 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 use260
Missing data/not specified/undetermined220
Arson/incendiarism57
Recreation and ceremony36
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Natural15
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning10
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2

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 2011Smokingunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestOVERPASS
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestFEDEX
9 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestMATHEWS
9 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestARIZONA
9 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestHOG
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSan Bernardino National ForestLYTLE
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestHEROES
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestTHIRTY-EIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Lytle Creek: 11 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Silver. 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
Blew JordamZinc, Silver, Lead, CadmiumProspect
Bob Cat LodeCopper, Gold, ZincProspect
Brown ProspectGold, SilverProspect
Deer Tick Nos. 1-8Talc-Soapstone, Asbestos, MicaUnknown
Flying W Ranch ManganeseManganeseOccurrence
SalamanderREEOccurrence
Smith Family Mining ClaimGold, Graphite, ClayUnknown
White QueenLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
California-Hercules MineZinc, Lead, SilverProspect
Califrnia-Hercules MillsiteZinc, Lead, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lytle Creek in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 wildfire, 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
August 2002WildfireLytle Creek1 killed, $20,000no account filed
October 2003WildfireLytle Creek1 hurtno account filed
September 2001WildfireLytle Creek$200,000no account filed
March 2000FloodLytle Creek$25,000no account filed
February 2004Flash FloodLytle Creek$10,000no account filed
February 2004Flash FloodLytle Creek$10,000no account filed
February 2025Heavy RainLytle Creek-Mesonet station SSVC1 Rancho Cucamonga reported a total of 5.84 inches of rain.
February 2023Flash FloodLytle Creek-San Bernardino County Fire conducted a swift water rescue of one occupant from a truck. Report of rushing water enveloping the lower half of the truck.
November 2018Heavy RainLytle Creek-Mesonet ssvc1 (8 mi nne of Rancho Cucamonga) reported a 24-hr rainfall total of 3.38 inches.
August 2014Flash FloodLytle Creek-CHP reported a side road of Lytle Creek Road was washed out due to heavy rainfall.
November 1999WildfireLytle Creek-A wildfire started by sparks from a firing range burned 95 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest before being fully contained.
July 2003WildfireLytle Creek-no account filed
September 2002WildfireLytle Creek-no account filed

Every storm 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
Scotland1.2 miles41
Keenbrook2.4 miles41
Cosy Dell2.8 miles32
Cajon3.6 miles32
Cajon Junction3.9 miles32
Devore Heights4.7 miles41
Alray4.9 miles32
Nealeys Corner5.9 miles41

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 Lytle CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458250The 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 1660968. 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.