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Rolling Hills Estates, California

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Palos Verdes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90274. It lies near Agua Negra Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Torrance quadrangle. 8,280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Rolling Hills Estates within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1896 to 1981

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 Rolling Hills Estates, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Rolling Hills Estates, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

On record in Rolling Hills Estates

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Rolling Hills Estates grew from 3,941 to 8,280 between 1960 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
19603,941
20108,067
20208,280+213 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

148 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Hills Estates between 2005 and 2020, burning about 561 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined84
Smoking24
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
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
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2011Smokingunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
3 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresCalifornia 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 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Rolling Hills Estates: 16 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Clay, Silica. 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
Hilltop QuarryLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer
Palos Verdes Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Caswell & Co.SilicaPast Producer
Diatomaceous Earth DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Diatomaceous Earth QuarryDiatomitePast Producer
DicaliteDiatomiteOccurrence
Lawrence I. Liston Co.-Madrona AveSilicaPast Producer
Linderman and Decker Co.ClayPast Producer
Lynn Brick Co.ClayPast Producer

Every working 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
Walteria1.2 miles41
Palos Verdes Peninsula1.9 miles43
Palos Verdes Estates1.9 miles43
Rolling Hills2.1 miles41
Hollywood Riviera2.3 miles43
Lomita2.3 miles41
Harbor Hills2.4 miles41
Clifton3.0 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 Rolling Hills EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953528The 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 1661326. 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.