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Moorpark, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Moorpark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93021. It lies near Happy Camp Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Moorpark quadrangle. 36,284 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Moorpark within Ventura County

Then and now

1900 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moorpark, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Moorpark, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Moorpark grew from 34,421 to 36,284 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
201034,421
202036,284+1,863 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Moorpark between 1994 and 2020, burning about 36,414 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined28
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
18 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National Forestnot named
17 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
12 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National Forestnot named
31 July 1994Smokingunder an acreSan Bernardino National Forestnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Moorpark: 6 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Pumice. 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
Fillmore DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Grimes Canyon QuarryPumiceProducer
Terminal QuarryStonePast Producer
Grimes Canyon AreaUraniumOccurrence
Grimes Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Strathern Cattle Co.UraniumOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Balcom Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blue Star PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ventura County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorpark in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash 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 2008Flash FloodMoorpark-California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain and flash flooding near the community of Moorpark. Reports indicated flash flooding along Tierra Rejada Drive at Hillside Drive.

Every storm recorded in Ventura 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
Virginia Colony1.3 miles27
Epworth2.1 miles26
Moorpark Home Acres2.2 miles26
Fairview2.7 miles26
Ternez (historical)3.0 miles26
Mountclef Village3.5 miles28
Lagol3.8 miles26
Strathearn4.4 miles27

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 MoorparkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q983829The 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 1652754. 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.