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Oak Hills, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Victorville-Hesperia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92344. The Survey maps it on the Baldy Mesa quadrangle. 9,450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,799 feet above sea level.

Oak Hills within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oak Hills, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Oak Hills, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Hills grew from 8,879 to 9,450 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
20108,879
20209,450+571 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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

398 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,944 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined157
Equipment and vehicle use130
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Smoking18
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
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
9 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestNORTH
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitBEAVER AV BALDY_MESA
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitWHITEHAVEN
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitMARIPOSA
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMESQUITE
4 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitEL CENTRO
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitPRAIRIE TRL HESPERIA_ARE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino 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 Oak Hills: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury. 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
Red FoxMercuryOccurrence
Red FoxMercuryUnknown

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
High Country1.5 miles32
Lugo2.3 miles32
Summit Terrace3.4 miles32
North Star Ranch3.7 miles29
Golden Valley Acres4.3 miles32
Sunset Ridge4.9 miles32
Hesperia5.2 miles29
The Mesa5.8 miles29

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 Oak HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3557156The 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 1841652. 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.