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San Juan Hot Springs, California

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Mission Viejo census division. It lies near Hot Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Canada Gobernadora quadrangle.

San Juan Hot Springs within Orange County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 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 Hot Springs, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of San Juan Hot Springs, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

On record in San Juan Hot Springs

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 42 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of San Juan Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,243 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCleveland National ForestORTEGA_3
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestLUCAS
30 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestCAL TRANS
30 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCleveland National ForestCARRILLO
28 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestVERDUGO
27 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCleveland National ForestFALLS
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE-1518
25 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestSAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of San Juan Hot Springs: 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Thorium, Clay. 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
Blue GooseGold, SilverPast Producer
Joker and Catherine ProspectGold, Copper, ZincProspect
Lucas Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, GranitePast Producer
Bell Canyon ProspectClayOccurrence
Crow Canyon PitClayPast Producer
ProspectClayProspect
San Juan Canyon ProspectUranium, ThoriumProspect
Unnamed ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectGoldProspect
Unnamed Uranium ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Trabuco Highlands3.4 miles42
Dove Canyon4.1 miles37
Coto De Caza4.2 miles42
Robinson Ranch5.4 miles37
Rancho Santa Margarita6.0 miles37
Las Flores6.2 miles37
Trabuco Canyon6.5 miles37
Ladera Ranch6.8 miles37

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 Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122558908The 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 1661384. 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.