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Morongo Valley, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Twentynine Palms-Yucca Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92256. It lies in Morongo Valley. The Survey maps it on the Morongo Valley quadrangle. 3,514 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,582 feet above sea level.

Morongo Valley within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morongo Valley, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Morongo Valley, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Morongo Valley fell from 3,552 to 3,514 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
20103,552
20203,514-38 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Morongo Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,781 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined112
Equipment and vehicle use46
Smoking20
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural10
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined190 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictINDIAN
7 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2718
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictBOGART
30 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLOCAL
30 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictLOCAL
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictMATAZENE
29 September 2013Smoking1.0 acresRiverside UnitHY 62 /N INDIAN CANYON D
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 3021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morongo Valley: 3 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, 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
Cocktail ProspectCopperProspect
Mission Creek DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pierce Ranch ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Unnamed MineGoldProspect

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
Palm Wells3.1 miles30
Little Morongo Heights4.7 miles30
Pioneertown8.8 miles15
Yucca Valley9.1 miles15
Rimrock10.5 miles29
Heart Bar Campground13.4 miles34
Flamingo Heights15.3 miles15
Joshua Tree15.4 miles14

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 Morongo ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q609184The 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 1652755. 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.