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Pine Hills, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Palomar-Julian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92036. It lies near Coleman Flat. The Survey maps it on the Santa Ysabel quadrangle.

Pine Hills within San Diego County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

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 Pine Hills, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Pine Hills, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 34 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Pine Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 267,746 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined87
Equipment and vehicle use58
Natural27
Debris and open burning26
Recreation and ceremony25
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitENGINEER
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Diego UnitLANE
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitHIESE
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictOFILA
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHEMBORG
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitDATSUN
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitGRANDVIEW
30 September 2010Naturalunder an acreSan Diego UnitBLACK OAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 97 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 97 workings within 5 miles of Pine Hills: 32 producers, 26 past producers, 20 occurrences, 19 prospects. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Nickel, Copper, Gold, Copper. 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
Foster QuarryStoneProducer
Foster QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Friday Copper Co ClaimCobalt, Copper, NickelProspect
Friday DepositNickel, Iron, Cobalt, CopperProspect
Friday MineCopper, Nickel, Cobalt, Palladium, Platinum, IridiumOccurrence1885
Kentwood Scheelite ClaimTungstenOccurrence
OwensGold, Copper, SilverPast ProducerVein
Owens MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Owens Old OwensmineGold, Copper, SilverProducer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Hills in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 10 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 14 deaths and 90 injuries. 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
October 2003WildfirePine Hills14 killed, 90 hurt, $1,040,000,000no account filed
November 2025Heavy RainPine Hills-Mesonet station PHIC1 4.8 SW Julian reported 0.69 inches of rain in the past hour.
September 2025Heavy RainPine Hills-A public source reported 0.80 inches of rainfall.
October 2022Heavy RainPine Hills-Lake Cuyamaca received 1.59 inches of rain in hour, occurring between 1 and 2 PM local time. The storm total rainfall as of 7 AM local time on the 16th was 2.78 inches.
August 2022Heavy RainPine Hills-Lake Cuyamaca spotter received 0.75 inches of rain in 45 minutes.
August 2022Heavy RainPine Hills-Mesonet station FW0019 Lake Cuyamaca measured 0.49 inch of rain in 45 minutes.
March 2021Heavy RainPine Hills-Areas of the San Diego county mountains received heavy rainfall out of this storm system, with some areas over 2 inches in total. Pine Hills reported 2.82 inches of rain.
March 2021Heavy RainPine Hills-The valleys and mountains of San Diego County saw appreciable rainfall with some places reaching near 1.5 inches of rain in total.
August 2021Heavy RainPine Hills-Lake Cuyamaca measures 0.82 inches of rain.
October 2021Heavy RainPine Hills-Moderate to heavy rain fell across the region with areas of 0.50 to 0.80 inches total.
November 2020Heavy RainPine Hills-Areas of heavy rainfall occurred across the mountains and valleys of San Diego County. Notable totals occurred at Lake Cuyamaca with 3.98 inches of rain and Pine Valley with 3.31 inches of rain.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindPine Hills-Two mesonet stations at Lake Cuyamaca reported thunderstorm wind gusts between 64 and 70 mph.

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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
Branson (historical)2.2 miles34
Julian2.6 miles34
Kentwood-In-The-Pines3.3 miles34
Wynola3.5 miles34
Whispering Pines3.5 miles34
Harrison Park3.6 miles34
Banner4.7 miles34
Santa Ysabel4.8 miles34

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 Pine HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195207The 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 1661223. 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.