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Salton Sea Beach, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Imperial census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92274. It stands on Wonderstone Wash. The Survey maps it on the Oasis quadrangle. 508 people lived here at the 2020 count. It lies 217 feet below sea level.

Salton Sea Beach within Imperial County

Then and now

1904 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Salton Sea Beach, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Salton Sea Beach, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

Salton Sea Beach grew from 422 to 508 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
2010422
2020508+86 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 29 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Salton Sea Beach between 1996 and 2018, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle 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
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection86
22 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Diego UnitBEAUTY#2
20 May 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouthern California AgencyREAL FIRE
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictTREADWELL
19 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL 12556
23 December 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGARNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Imperial County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Salton Sea Beach: 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Cahuilla (Modoc)GoldProspect
Coolidge SpringsLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Coolidge Springs DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Aggregate Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hazard Fish Springs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wonderstone Rock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Imperial 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
Coolidge Springs2.4 miles29
Desert Shores2.5 miles29
Truckhaven5.7 miles20
Salton City6.0 miles20
Squeaky Springs (historical)8.8 miles20
Bertram12.1 miles21
Bombay Beach15.1 miles22
Pope15.3 miles22

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 Salton Sea BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1235586The 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 1661370. 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.