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Rimlon, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cathedral City-Palm Desert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92234. The Survey maps it on the Cathedral City quadrangle.

Rimlon within Riverside County

Then and now

1941 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rimlon, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Rimlon, surveyed 1941

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

343 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Rimlon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined203
Equipment and vehicle use34
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Smoking23
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning11
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresRiverside UnitMISSION HILLS CC RANM
30 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitISLAND DR RANM
28 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLOCAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Rimlon: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Frances GroupGoldProspect
A-1 Thousand Palms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flat Top Mtn. DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hicks-Allred Indio Hills DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rio Del Sol PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southwest PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thousand Palms Community PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thousand Palms DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rimlon in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
November 2025FloodRimlon-Media video shows flooded roadway along date Palm Drive, south of Interstate 10. Intersection of Date Palm and Los Gatos Rd. Flooded, with Los Gatos being closed, due to high water.
December 2023Flash FloodRimlon-Number 3 and 4 lanes of I-10W near and east of Date Palm Drive blocked with mud and debris. The nearby Thousand Palms mesonet recorded 0.83 inch of rain since 3 AM that morning, though no rain was occurring when the flooding was reported.
September 2019Flash FloodRimlon-Flash flooding along Date Palm Drive at Los Gatos Road from heavy rain from 0400 through mid-morning on 9/2. At one point, there was roughly 12 inches of water on the road.
October 2018Flash FloodRimlon-CHP reported flash flooding at Varner Drive and Date Palm Drive and requested that the road be closed to traffic.

Every storm recorded in Riverside 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
Thousand Palms3.1 miles33
Royal Palms3.1 miles33
Caliente Sands3.1 miles33
Edom3.5 miles33
Salvia3.9 miles43
Suntown4.0 miles33
Cathedral City4.2 miles33
Shadow Ridge Creek4.3 miles28

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.

Wikidata item Q122540360The 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 252970. 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.