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.
Then and now
1897 to 1982The 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.


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
Cucamonga Service Stationlisted 2018
Pacific Electric Etiwanda Depotlisted 2011
Population over time
2 figuresRancho 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 165,269 | |
| 2020 | 174,453 | +9,184 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 41 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.
- 1897 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1903 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Guasti quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:62500, 5 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 Guasti quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
200 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 114 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Smoking | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Bernardino Unit | not named |
| 9 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 110 acres | San Bernardino National Forest | AMETHYST |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | San Bernardino Unit | BANYAN |
| 5 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | San Bernardino Unit | SUMMIT |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Bernardino Unit | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 29 September 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble Canyon | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Campus Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Upland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Upland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Upland Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2005 | Flash Flood | Rancho Cucamonga | $100,000 | no account filed |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rancho Cucamonga | $25,000 | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Flash Flood | Rancho Cucamonga | $20,000 | no account filed |
| December 2022 | Flash Flood | Rancho 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 2022 | Heavy Rain | Rancho 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 2003 | Wildfire | Rancho Cucamonga | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Flood | Rancho Cucamonga | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Flood | Rancho Cucamonga | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Cucamonga | 1.1 miles | 41 | |
| Alta Loma | 1.1 miles | 41 | |
| Las Uvas (historical) | 1.8 miles | 48 | |
| Grapeland | 2.1 miles | 48 | |
| Los Olivos | 2.5 miles | 46 | |
| Rochester | 2.6 miles | 41 | |
| Guasti | 2.9 miles | 41 | |
| Upland | 3.0 miles | 43 |
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 Cucamonga | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q495365 | 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 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.















