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Rolling Hills, 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 San Pedro Hill. The Survey maps it on the Torrance quadrangle. 1,739 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

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

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Rolling Hills grew from 1,664 to 1,739 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
19601,664
20101,860
20201,739-121 (-7%)

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

122 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Hills between 2005 and 2020, burning about 533 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined68
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking19
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning2
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 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
3 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder 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 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Rolling Hills: 12 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Hilltop QuarryLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer
Miller Bros. Truck Co.-HawthorneSilicaPast Producer
Palos Verdes Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Linderman and Decker Co.ClayPast Producer
Lynn Brick Co.ClayPast Producer
Diatomaceous Earth DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Diatomaceous Earth QuarryDiatomitePast Producer
DicaliteDiatomiteOccurrence
Chandlers Palos Verdes S&G Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edward Sidebotham and Sons, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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
San Pedro Hill1.2 miles37
Portuguese Bend1.4 miles37
Miraleste1.5 miles41
Palos Verdes Peninsula1.6 miles43
Rancho Palos Verdes2.0 miles39
Rolling Hills Estates2.1 miles41
Harbor Hills2.6 miles41
Lomita3.2 miles41

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 HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958507The 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 1661325. 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.