San Simeon, California
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93452. It stands on Arroyo del Puerto. The Survey maps it on the San Simeon quadrangle. 445 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,209 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1919 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in San Simeon
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 2 records
Hearst San Simeon EstateNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
Piedras Blancas Light Stationlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresSan Simeon fell from 462 to 445 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 | 462 | |
| 2020 | 445 | -17 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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 San Simeon quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1937 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS San Simeon quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Cambria quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
34 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of San Simeon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central California District | UNNAMED FIRE 1901 |
| 27 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | PICO |
| 2 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | SEAL |
| 8 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | PARK |
| 6 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central California District | HEARST |
| 5 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | HEARST |
| 4 August 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | HEARST CASTLE VISITORS CE |
| 27 August 1997 | Smoking | 7.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | SAN SIMEON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of San Simeon: 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hearst Ranch - Marmelejo Creek Deposit | Manganese | Occurrence | Rhodochrosite | |
| Hearst Ranch - Red Rock Deposit | Manganese | Producer | Residual | |
| Hearst Ranch-Marmolejo Cr. Deposit | Manganese | Occurrence | 1942 | |
| Hearst Ranch-Red Rock Deposit | Manganese | Past Producer | 1942 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leimert | 6.6 miles | 22 | |
| Happy Hill | 6.7 miles | 22 | |
| West Village | 7.1 miles | 22 | |
| Park Hill | 7.2 miles | 22 | |
| Cambria Pines | 7.4 miles | 22 | |
| East Village | 8.0 miles | 22 | |
| Cambria | 8.0 miles | 22 | |
| Tin City | 8.1 miles | 22 |
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 Simeon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1353689 | 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 248966. 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.










