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.
Then and now
1919 to 1982The 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.


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
- Rancho San Lucaslisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresSan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 269 | |
| 2020 | 324 | +55 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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.
- 1919 USGS King City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS King City quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS King City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS San Lucas quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS King City quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Point Sur quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PARIS |
| 7 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | MCDONELL |
| 27 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | HIGHWAY 198 |
| 22 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | PG&E # 21 |
| 18 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | HIGHWAY |
| 9 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU002932 |
| 9 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Benito-Monterey Unit | HWY 101 #11 |
| 7 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | San Benito-Monterey Unit | CABEU 003114 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Lucas Area Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2021 | Flood | San Lucas | - | Roadway flooding at US-101 south near King City. |
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.
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 Lucas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2394499 | 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 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.











