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Rancho Cucamonga, California

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ontario census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91730. The Survey maps it on the Guasti quadrangle. 174,453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Rancho Cucamonga within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1897 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rancho Cucamonga, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Rancho Cucamonga, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

On record in Rancho Cucamonga

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Rancho Cucamonga grew from 165,269 to 174,453 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
2010165,269
2020174,453+9,184 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 41 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Cucamonga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,552 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined114
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
9 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor110 acresSan Bernardino National ForestAMETHYST
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitBANYAN
5 September 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitSUMMIT
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino Unitnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rancho Cucamonga: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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
Marble CanyonTungstenOccurrence
Campus PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Upland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rancho Cucamonga in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2005Flash FloodRancho Cucamonga$100,000no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindRancho Cucamonga$25,000no account filed
February 2004Flash FloodRancho Cucamonga$20,000no account filed
December 2022Flash FloodRancho Cucamonga-Swiftwater rescue of woman in Cucamonga Wash at Airport Drive. The Ontario Fire Department reported the woman received minor injuries. Rainfall rates of 0.5 to 0.7 inch from Fullerton to Rancho Cucamonga between 7-8 am. The main IVT frontal band moved through Southern California 7-10 AM.
September 2022Heavy RainRancho Cucamonga-Heavy rain associated with residual moisture from post-tropical cyclone Kay occurred during the afternoon on September 12 in northern portions of the Inland Empire, particularly north of Rancho Cucamonga.||The following are measured rainfall:||Mesonet station LRAC1, 5.5 NE Rancho Cucamonga: 2.83 inch.||Mesonet station DECC1, 4.2 N Rancho Cucamonga: 2.75 inch.||Mesonet station DACC1, 3.9 NE Rancho Cucamonga: 1.97 inch.
July 2003WildfireRancho Cucamonga-no account filed
April 2001FloodRancho Cucamonga-no account filed
January 1998FloodRancho Cucamonga-no account filed

Every storm 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
North Cucamonga1.1 miles41
Alta Loma1.1 miles41
Las Uvas (historical)1.8 miles48
Grapeland2.1 miles48
Los Olivos2.5 miles46
Rochester2.6 miles41
Guasti2.9 miles41
Upland3.0 miles43

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 Rancho CucamongaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q495365The 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 1667908. 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.