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Menifee, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Perris Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92585. It lies near Double Butte. The Survey maps it on the Romoland quadrangle. 102,527 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,424 feet above sea level.

Menifee within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Menifee, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Menifee, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Menifee grew from 77,519 to 102,527 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
201077,519
2020102,527+25,008 (+32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

1,057 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,057 fires within 5 miles of Menifee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,992 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 92 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/undetermined515
Equipment and vehicle use260
Arson/incendiarism92
Misuse of fire by a minor76
Smoking55
Debris and open burning32
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSUN CITY BL MENI
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitDESERT TERRACE DR MENI
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOETZ
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitSERPENS CT MENI
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitGRAND
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitPOWERLINE
8 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSTATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside 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 Menifee: 6 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Gold, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Silt DepositClayOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rigers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverside Co. Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Co. Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
K & K RanchFeldspar, SilicaOccurrence
Machado DepositFeldspar, SilicaProspect
Menifee MineGoldProducer
Patterson ClaimFeldspar, SilicaOccurrence
Romoland GroupGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menifee in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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 2018FloodMenifee$25,000Several vehicles were stuck in mud and flooded out. Additional urban flooding was reported elsewhere in the Inland Empire.
July 2006Tornado (F0)Menifee$25,000A thunderstorm along the Elsinore Convergence Zone produced a landspout tornado near Menifee. The landspout blew over about a dozen pine trees and a few palm trees at the Menifee Lakes Country Club. A few homes were damage by falling trees.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMenifee$1,000Various lawn furniture items such as chairs and tables were picked up and thrown through the air.
August 2014HailMenifee$500The public reported 1-inch hail in Menifee from an early morning thunderstorm. Local news media reported large hail cracked a vehicle windshield in Menifee from the same storm.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindMenifee-Four downed trees in Menifee from thunderstorm wind gusts (measured at 40-46 mph). Two trees were dead.

Every storm recorded in Riverside 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
Romoland1.9 miles35
Homeland2.2 miles36
Sun City3.0 miles35
Menifee Lakes3.4 miles35
Winchester3.6 miles36
Green Acres3.8 miles36
Valley Vista4.0 miles36
Juniper Springs4.2 miles36

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 MenifeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476276The 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 252936. 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.