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San Lucas, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the King City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93954. It lies near Long Valley. The Survey maps it on the San Lucas quadrangle. 324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

San Lucas within Monterey County

Then and now

1919 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 63 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 Lucas, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of San Lucas, surveyed 1919

Compare 1919 against another survey:

On record in San Lucas

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

San Lucas grew from 269 to 324 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
2010269
2020324+55 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of San Lucas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 962 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use37
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitPARIS
7 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMCDONELL
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitHIGHWAY 198
22 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitPG&E # 21
18 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitHIGHWAY
9 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU002932
9 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitHWY 101 #11
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU 003114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of San Lucas: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
San Lucas Area DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monterey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Lucas in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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 Lucas-Roadway flooding at US-101 south near King City.

Every storm recorded in Monterey 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
Welby4.9 miles24
Docas (historical)5.0 miles25
King City8.1 miles23
San Ardo9.7 miles25
Elsa10.5 miles26
Lonoak11.0 miles21
Coburn13.1 miles26
Lockwood13.2 miles25

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 LucasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2394499The 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 248896. 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.