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Piñon Hills, California

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victorville-Hesperia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92372. It lies near Boneyard Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mescal Creek quadrangle. 7,258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,173 feet above sea level.

Piñon Hills within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Piñon Hills, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Piñon Hills, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Piñon Hills fell from 7,272 to 7,258 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
20107,272
20207,258-14 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 37 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

443 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 443 fires within 5 miles of Piñon Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,193 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined141
Equipment and vehicle use62
Natural54
Debris and open burning47
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Arson/incendiarism36
Recreation and ceremony26
Smoking21
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes2
Fireworks2

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 2015Naturalunder an acreAngeles National ForestNELSON
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionVALLE VISTA RD PHELAN
8 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHWY 138 / SHEEP CREEK RD
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHIGHWAY
6 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitSMOKETREE
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreAngeles National ForestSITE
4 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitJOSHUA LN / PHELAN RD
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Piñon Hills: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Big PineLimestone, GeneralProspect
Big PineLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Wrightwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

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
Pinon Hills Estates2.6 miles37
Deer Haven3.1 miles34
Yucca Inn3.4 miles34
Wildhorse Canyon3.7 miles38
Phelan4.0 miles34
Mountain Top Junction4.8 miles34
Wrightwood5.1 miles39
Baldy Mesa10.5 miles32

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 Piñon HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478240The 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 1661228. 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.