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Sand City, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Seaside-Monterey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93955. The Survey maps it on the Seaside quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Sand City within Monterey County

Then and now

1913 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sand City, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Sand City, surveyed 1913

Compare 1913 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Sand City fell from 334 to 325 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
2010334
2020325-9 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Sand City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 349 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined88
Equipment and vehicle use35
Smoking33
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMORSE
9 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMAJELLA RD / SLOAT RD
6 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCARPENTER
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMATHESON
3 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use12 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitJOSSELYN CANYON RD CYPRE
29 September 2009Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitAGUAJITO RD CYPRESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monterey County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Sand City: 9 producers, 7 past producers, 5 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Diatomite. 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
Work Ranch DepositDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Work Ranch DepositDiatomitePast Producer
Del Monte Properties CoStoneProducer
Jefferson Street QuarryStoneProducer
Ruthyen PitStoneProducer
SierraStoneProducer
Unnamed MineStonePast Producer
Atkinson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
David AvenueStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Del Monte Properties Co. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Seaside0.5 miles30
Fort Ord Village (historical)0.8 miles30
Del Monte Heights0.9 miles30
Del Monte1.6 miles30
Del Rey Oaks1.8 miles30
Cannery Row2.6 miles31
Monterey2.7 miles31
New Monterey2.9 miles31

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 Sand CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2262091The 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 1652820. 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.