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Redondo Beach, California

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the South Bay Cities census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90277. The Survey maps it on the Redondo Beach quadrangle. 71,576 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Redondo Beach within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1896 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Redondo Beach, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Redondo Beach, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

On record in Redondo Beach

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 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Redondo Beach grew from 603 to 71,576 between 1890 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
1890603
201066,748
202071,576+4,828 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 43 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

100 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Redondo Beach between 2005 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined60
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
6 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
7 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Redondo Beach: 12 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Silica, Titanium, Metal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Burdick Minerals Corp.Titanium, LeadPast Producer
Redondo Beach ChalcedonySemiprecious GemstoneOccurrence
Diatomaceous Earth DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
DicaliteDiatomiteOccurrence
Richard BallSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Torrance Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
CliftonTitanium, MetalProducer
Clifton-Redondo PlacerTitanium, MetalProducerIlmenite
Torrance B Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant
Caswell & Co.SilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redondo Beach in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2000: 1 storm surge/tide, 1 rip current. The reports record 1 death and 27 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
December 2000Rip CurrentRedondo Beach1 killedno account filed
January 1997Storm Surge/TideRedondo Beach27 hurtno account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles 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
Hermosa Beach1.1 miles43
Clifton1.6 miles43
Dudmore2.0 miles41
Monaco2.3 miles41
Hollywood Riviera2.4 miles43
Perry2.6 miles41
Torrance2.7 miles41
Manhattan Beach2.7 miles42

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 Redondo BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q840678The 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 1652782. 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.