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Sandia, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Holtville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92250. The Survey maps it on the Alamorio quadrangle. It lies 82 feet below sea level.

Sandia within Imperial County

Then and now

1907 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sandia, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Sandia, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sandia between 2005 and 2018, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 July 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 May 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
15 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
7 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
16 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Imperial County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandia in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008HailSandia-Large hail was reported by employees at the Imperial Irrigation District.

Every storm recorded in Imperial 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
Fuller1.7 miles22
Perrys Corner2.1 miles22
Curlew3.3 miles21
Holtville5.3 miles22
Rico5.5 miles22
Meloland6.1 miles22
Orita6.3 miles21
Alamorio7.1 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q7416318The 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 1656616. 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.

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.