Santa Barbara, California

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The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1944 1995

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 12 of 24 shown

• Rafael Gonzalez HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Santa Barbara County CourthouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1981
• Santa Barbara MissionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Acacia Lodgelisted 1997
• Andalucia Buildinglisted 1999
• El Paseo and Casa de la Guerralisted 1977
• Faith Missionlisted 1982
• Herschell, Allan, 3-Abreast Carousellisted 2000
• Hill-Carrillo Adobelisted 1986
• Thomas Hope Houselisted 1978
• Janssens-Orella-Birk Buildinglisted 1987
• Los Banos del Marlisted 1992

Every listing in Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara grew from 88,410 to 88,665 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.

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.

• 1944 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:31680
• 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1952 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1976 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1995 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Santa Barbara between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,290 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mission
• Mission Canyon
• El Sueno
• Hope Ranch
• Irma
• Goleta

Every fire recorded in Santa Barbara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Santa Barbara: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Every working recorded in Santa Barbara County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Barbara in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 2 waterspout. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Santa Barbara County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661401. 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.

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.