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.
Then and now
1901 to 1995The 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.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresPiñon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,272 | |
| 2020 | 7,258 | -14 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 37 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 Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1903 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Boneyard Canyon quadrangle1:24000
- 1939 USGS Boneyard Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mescal Creek quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Mescal Creek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
443 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 141 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 62 |
| Natural | 54 |
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 26 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | NELSON |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | VALLE VISTA RD PHELAN |
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | HWY 138 / SHEEP CREEK RD |
| 8 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | HIGHWAY |
| 6 September 2005 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | San Bernardino Unit | SMOKETREE |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | SITE |
| 4 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | JOSHUA LN / PHELAN RD |
| 4 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Pine | Limestone, General | Prospect | ||
| Big Pine | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Wrightwood Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinon Hills Estates | 2.6 miles | 37 | |
| Deer Haven | 3.1 miles | 34 | |
| Yucca Inn | 3.4 miles | 34 | |
| Wildhorse Canyon | 3.7 miles | 38 | |
| Phelan | 4.0 miles | 34 | |
| Mountain Top Junction | 4.8 miles | 34 | |
| Wrightwood | 5.1 miles | 39 | |
| Baldy Mesa | 10.5 miles | 32 |
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 Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3478240 | 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 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.














