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San Marino, California

47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Pasadena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91108. The Survey maps it on the El Monte quadrangle. 12,513 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

San Marino within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 85 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 Marino, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of San Marino, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

On record in San Marino

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

San Marino grew from 584 to 12,513 between 1920 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
1920584
201013,147
202012,513-634 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 47 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

284 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of San Marino between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,933 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined162
Arson/incendiarism34
Smoking28
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Natural1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
4 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAngeles National ForestELLIOT
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
25 September 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of San Marino: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Simmons Brick Co.-Pasadena PlantClayPast Producer
Torrance Brick Co.-Monterey Park 2ClayPast Producer
Monterey Park Granite Co, IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Osborn CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Osborn Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles 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
Oak Knoll1.6 miles43
Sibagna (historical)1.7 miles50
San Gabriel1.7 miles50
East Pasadena1.8 miles47
Lamanda Park2.0 miles47
Alhambra2.1 miles46
East San Gabriel2.2 miles49
Raymond Hill2.2 miles43

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 MarinoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q850869The 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 1652789. 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.