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Romoland, California

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Perris Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92585. The Survey maps it on the Romoland quadrangle. 2,005 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Romoland within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Romoland, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Romoland, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Romoland grew from 1,684 to 2,005 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,684
20202,005+321 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

1,594 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,594 fires within 5 miles of Romoland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,426 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 144 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/undetermined812
Equipment and vehicle use354
Arson/incendiarism144
Misuse of fire by a minor132
Smoking67
Debris and open burning48
Recreation and ceremony15
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Natural8
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSUN CITY BL MENI
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitDESERT TERRACE DR MENI
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitELLIS AV GOOD
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL FIRE
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOETZ
9 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresRiverside UnitSTATE FIRE
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionARAPAHOE RD PERR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Romoland: 8 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Manganese, Gold, Slate, Dimension. 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
Silt DepositClayOccurrence
Unnamed Metasandstone QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Patterson ClaimFeldspar, SilicaOccurrence
Rainbow Slate GroupSlate, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Rigers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverside Co. Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Co. Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Quarries Co. DepositSlate, DimensionPast Producer
Southern Pacific DepositFeldspar, SilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romoland in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2003LightningRomoland1 killedno account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRomoland$300,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRomoland$12,000Power lines down due to wind in the vicinity of Perris and Romoland. Locations include Ethanac Road at Evans Road west of Romoland, South D and East 7th Streets in Perris, and the 27900 block of Washington Street. All lines reported down around 1400 PST on the 6th.

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
Menifee1.9 miles35
Sun City2.8 miles35
Ellis3.0 miles35
Homeland3.5 miles36
Perris3.8 miles35
Nuevo4.1 miles35
Quail Valley4.6 miles35
Menifee Lakes4.7 miles35

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 RomolandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2026167The 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 1661327. 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.