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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.

San Simeon within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1919 to 1980

The 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.

Topographic sheet of San Simeon, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of San Simeon, surveyed 1919

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

Population over time

2 figures

San 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.

YearPeople Change
2010462
2020445-17 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

34 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1901
27 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitPICO
2 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitSEAL
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitPARK
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictHEARST
5 August 2014Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitHEARST
4 August 2014Smokingunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitHEARST CASTLE VISITORS CE
27 August 1997Smoking7.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitSAN SIMEON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hearst Ranch - Marmelejo Creek DepositManganeseOccurrenceRhodochrosite
Hearst Ranch - Red Rock DepositManganeseProducerResidual
Hearst Ranch-Marmolejo Cr. DepositManganeseOccurrence1942
Hearst Ranch-Red Rock DepositManganesePast Producer1942

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo 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
Leimert6.6 miles22
Happy Hill6.7 miles22
West Village7.1 miles22
Park Hill7.2 miles22
Cambria Pines7.4 miles22
East Village8.0 miles22
Cambria8.0 miles22
Tin City8.1 miles22

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 SimeonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1353689The 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.