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San Juan Bautista, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the San Juan Bautista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95045. It lies near San Juan Canyon. The Survey maps it on the San Juan Bautista quadrangle. 2,089 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

San Juan Bautista within San Benito County

Then and now

1915 to 1997

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 San Juan Bautista, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of San Juan Bautista, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

On record in San Juan Bautista

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

San Juan Bautista grew from 1,862 to 2,089 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
20101,862
20202,089+227 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of San Juan Bautista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined90
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitBETABEL
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003696
9 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E #24
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitHULSE 2
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitAROMAS
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003678
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use27 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCOBB
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitMERRILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Benito 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 San Juan Bautista: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone. 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
Holthouse RanchUraniumOccurrence
Ideal Cement CompanyLimestone, General, ClayProducer
Spreckles Sugar Co.Limestone, General, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
AugustiniStoneProducer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer
Los Vergales Ranch QuarryLimestone, GeneralProspectSedimentary
Los Vergeles Ranch QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Underwood DepositsLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Bixby Lane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspectSedimentary

Every working recorded in San Benito County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Juan Bautista in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2026: 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
January 2021FloodSan Juan Bautista$2,000,000Damage to Salinas Grade Rd from San Juan Bautista to Monterey County. Exact time of damage occurrence unknown, estimates sent b public works.
January 2026FloodSan Juan Bautista-Flooding was reported on San Juan Highway at Prescott Road.

Every storm recorded in San Benito 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
Morse2.4 miles26
River Oaks4.8 miles29
Hudner5.9 miles24
Aromas6.3 miles27
Logan6.5 miles27
Duri (historical)6.9 miles26
Fep (historical)7.1 miles29
Hollister7.2 miles26

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 Juan BautistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q991036The 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 1659581. 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.