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Mount Laguna, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Laguna-Pine Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91948. It lies near PiƱon Point. The Survey maps it on the Mount Laguna quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,738 feet above sea level.

Mount Laguna within San Diego County

Then and now

1931 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Laguna, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Mount Laguna, surveyed 1931

Compare 1931 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Laguna grew from 57 to 74 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
201057
202074+17 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Mount Laguna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,144 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony118
Natural38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking7
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestWOODED
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCleveland National ForestHILL
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestROCK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestSUNRISE
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCleveland National ForestSECTION
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreCleveland National ForestJOY
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use30 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictLUCKY
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCleveland National ForestDULCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Mount Laguna: 13 occurrences, 5 prospects, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten. 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
CasseopiaTungstenUnknown
Sundown MineTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Sundown MineTungstenProspect
Abbie GroupGoldOccurrence
Anchor ProspectGoldProspect
Brier ClaimGoldOccurrence
Brown GroupGoldProspect
Butte No. 2 ProspectGoldOccurrence
Charley K. ProspectGoldOccurrence
Cimmarron ProspectGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Diego 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
Pine Valley6.8 miles34
Guatay7.5 miles34
Boulder Oaks10.3 miles22
Descanso Junction10.5 miles34
Descanso10.6 miles34
Hulburd Grove10.9 miles34
Mesquite Oasis11.1 miles23
Los Terrenitos11.1 miles34

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 Mount LagunaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458791The 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 1661067. 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.