San Diego Country Estates, California
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Ramona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92065. It lies near Swartz Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ramona quadrangle. 10,395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1903 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresSan Diego Country Estates grew from 10,109 to 10,395 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,109 | |
| 2020 | 10,395 | +286 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 32 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 2 quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Borrego Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
394 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of San Diego Country Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 292,890 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 51 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/undetermined | 140 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 117 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 51 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Diego Unit | OAK SPRINGS DR RAMONA 12 |
| 8 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Cleveland National Forest | CAPITAN |
| 8 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | SAN VICENTE |
| 8 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Diego Unit | ROADSIDE |
| 7 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | not named |
| 7 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | TENT |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Diego Unit | HWY 78 WITCH_CREEK 7 |
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | San Diego Unit | JULIAN 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of San Diego Country Estates: 11 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Semiprecious Gemstone, Gold, Iron, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allanite Prospect | Uranium, Thorium | Prospect | ||
| Daley Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Hatfield Creek Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Hatfield Creek Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mcfall Mine | Garnet | Past Producer | ||
| Moore Pit | Granite | Producer | ||
| Dewey Mine | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Fraction Claim | Gemstone | Prospect | ||
| Juch | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Juch | Iron | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four Corners | 2.0 miles | 40 | |
| Ballena | 4.5 miles | 34 | |
| El Capitan (historical) | 5.0 miles | 40 | |
| Ramona | 5.1 miles | 32 | |
| Pine Grove | 5.7 miles | 33 | |
| Barona | 6.6 miles | 40 | |
| Irvings Crest | 7.1 miles | 37 | |
| Fernbrook | 7.3 miles | 37 |
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 San Diego Country Estates | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2078862 | The 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 1867055. 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.












