Santa Nella Village, California
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Los Banos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95322. The Survey maps it on the San Luis Dam quadrangle. 2,211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1920 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresSanta Nella Village grew from 1,380 to 2,211 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 | 1,380 | |
| 2020 | 2,211 | +831 (+60%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1920 USGS Pacheco Pass quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1922 USGS San Luis Creek quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Pacheco Pass quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS San Luis Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS San Luis Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
798 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 798 fires within 5 miles of Santa Nella Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,879 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined | 443 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 244 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Smoking | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 800 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | 152 |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | HWY 152 W/ ROMERO VISITO |
| 8 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ROADSIDE |
| 7 September 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | HENRY |
| 7 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ROADSIDE #171 |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | HWY 33 / HWY 152 CROSS |
| 6 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ROADSIDE |
| 6 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | SAN LUIS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volta | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Ingomar | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Trent | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Linora (historical) | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Los Banos | 9.3 miles | 15 | |
| Abbato (historical) | 10.5 miles | 15 | |
| Gustine | 11.1 miles | 17 | |
| Gadwall (historical) | 14.3 miles | 15 |
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 Santa Nella Village | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458718 | 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 1659597. 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.









