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Newbury Park, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Thousand Oaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91320. It lies near Conejo Valley. The Survey maps it on the Newbury Park quadrangle. 37,775 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Newbury Park 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 Newbury Park, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Newbury Park, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

On record in Newbury Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Newbury Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67,471 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use17
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaKIMBER
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire DepartmentBRUSH
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaSMALLFIRE
30 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVentura County Fire Departmentnot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaHAMPSHIRE
2 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaTRIUNFO
2 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaSHERWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newbury Park: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mary Smith QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quality Rock Company Sand and GravlSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ventura County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newbury Park in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2010Flash FloodNewbury Park1 killedA Ventura county man drowned in the Wildwood Park area of Thousand Oaks. The individual was hiking in the park to observe the local creeks that were flooded due to the heavy rainfall. The individual fell into one of the creeks and drowned.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindNewbury Park-An automated sensor at Sandstone Peak reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 82 MPH.
August 2023Flash FloodNewbury Park-Heavy rain generated flash flooding near the community of Newbury Park. Significant flooding was reported on Highway 101 near Ventu Park Road.
February 2017Flash FloodNewbury Park-Heavy rain generated flash flooding in Ventura county near the community of Thousand Oak. In Wildwood Creek, there men were rescued from the water when the creek flooded.
November 2001FloodNewbury Park-no account filed

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
Casa Conejo1.7 miles28
Greenwich Village2.5 miles30
Mountclef Village3.9 miles28
Thousand Oaks4.0 miles30
Leisure Village4.7 miles28
North Ranch4.9 miles30
Triunfo Corner4.9 miles30
Moorpark Home Acres5.6 miles26

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 Newbury ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7017236The 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 1661102. 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.