San Juan Capistrano, California

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.

1901 1983

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 12 of 13 shown

• Casa de Esperanzalisted 1990
• Richard Egan Houselisted 2017
• Esslinger Buildinglisted 1988
• Frank A. Forster Houselisted 1986
• Los Rios Street Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Mission San Juan Capistranolisted 1971
• Carl Stroschein Houselisted 2009
• Roger Y. Williams Houselisted 2007
• Joel R. Congdon Houselisted 2002
• Harrison Houselisted 1979
• Montanez Adobelisted 1975
• Miguel Parra Adobelisted 1978

Every listing in Orange County

San Juan Capistrano grew from 34,593 to 35,196 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.

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.

• 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Santiago Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS San Juan Capistrano quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS San Juan Capistrano quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
• 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
• 1968 USGS San Juan Capistrano quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1974 USGS San Juan Capistrano quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of San Juan Capistrano between 1994 and 2018, burning about 638 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Capistrano Beach
• Dana Point
• Laguna Niguel
• Three Arch Bay
• San Clemente
• South Laguna

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of San Juan Capistrano: 8 producers, 3 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Silica, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Juan Capistrano in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Orange County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661383. 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.