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Santa Paula, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Santa Paula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93060. It stands on Santa Paula Creek. The Survey maps it on the Santa Paula quadrangle. 30,657 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 279 feet above sea level.

Santa Paula within Ventura County

Then and now

1903 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Santa Paula, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Santa Paula, surveyed 1903

On record in Santa Paula

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Santa Paula grew from 29,321 to 30,657 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
201029,321
202030,657+1,336 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Santa Paula between 2005 and 2020, burning about 292,088 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined21
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
1 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
1 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 July 2007Missing 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 Ventura County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Santa Paula: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Diatomite, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Anderson & Hardison Pressed BrickcoClayOccurrence
South Mountain DepositStone, Crushed/Broken, Diatomite, Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Southern Pacific QuarryStonePast Producer
Asbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Santa Clara River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Santa Paula PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Santa Paula PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Santa Paula PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ventura County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Paula in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2008: 3 flash flood, 1 wildfire. 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
January 2008Flash FloodSanta Paula-California Highway Patrol reported significant flooding along Highway 126 near Hallock Drive.
November 2002Flash FloodSanta Paula-no account filed
November 2002Flash FloodSanta Paula-no account filed
December 2000WildfireSanta Paula-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ventura 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
Kevet1.1 miles27
Haines3.1 miles27
Limon3.5 miles27
Limoneira3.9 miles26
Teagueville (historical)3.9 miles28
Sulphur Springs5.4 miles28
Oak Village5.7 miles29
Camp Bartlett5.7 miles28

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 PaulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985348The 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 1652793. 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.