Nuevo, 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 92567. The Survey maps it on the Perris quadrangle. 6,733 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,490 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1983The 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.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresNuevo grew from 6,447 to 6,733 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,447 | |
| 2020 | 6,733 | +286 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 35 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Perris quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Perris quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Perris quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Perris quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1,067 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,067 fires within 5 miles of Nuevo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,500 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 99 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/undetermined | 516 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 249 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 99 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 89 |
| Smoking | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Riverside Unit | LOCAL FIRE |
| 9 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Riverside Unit | LOCAL |
| 8 September 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Riverside Unit | NUEVO RD /N DUNLAP DR |
| 8 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 7.0 acres | Riverside Unit | MURRIETA |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Riverside Unit | POWERLINE |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Riverside Unit | ALLEN |
| 7 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Riverside Unit | STATE |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Riverside Unit | HART LN PERR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Nuevo: 9 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Silica, Gold, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritchie & Paulson | Beryllium, Mica, Tantalum | Occurrence | ||
| Silt Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Bernasconi Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rigers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Riverside Co. Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Twin Buttes No. 1 Mine | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Twin Buttes No. 2 Mine | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Brown Feldspar & Silica | Feldspar, Silica | Prospect | ||
| K & K Ranch | Feldspar, Silica | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nuevo in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nuevo | $200,000 | A severe thunderstorm caused significant straight-line wind damage from a wet microburst on the east side of Perris on Nuevo Road near Menifee Road. Several power poles were snapped completely and fell over like dominoes. Several vehicles were trapped in between the downed poles, though no one was injured. Law enforcement was called in to close off several roads in the area. The wind also tore up some roofing on a few homes in the area. This damage was likely caused by winds from a microburst and not the nearby landspout, though both were the result of the same parent thunderstorm cell. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nuevo | $10,000 | Severe thunderstorms along the Elsinore Convergence Zone caused damaged to an unspecified number of power poles in Nuevo. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Nuevo | $9,000 | Three houses in Nuevo had minor flooding in the 500 block of West 10th, 28600 block of Central and the 28700 block of Reservoir. No one was forced out of their homes. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nuevo | - | CHP reported a bent electrical pole with wires hanging across the roadway in Nuevo. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Nuevo | - | A spotter reported hail up to one inch in Nuevo from a thunderstorm. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeview Hot Springs | 2.5 miles | 35 | |
| Lakeview | 3.0 miles | 36 | |
| Rancho las Perris | 3.7 miles | 35 | |
| Juniper Springs | 4.1 miles | 36 | |
| Romoland | 4.1 miles | 35 | |
| Ellis | 4.4 miles | 35 | |
| Homeland | 4.5 miles | 36 | |
| Perris | 4.6 miles | 35 |
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 Nuevo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970741 | The 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 1661125. 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.













