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Scotts Valley, California

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Santa Cruz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95066. It lies in Scotts Valley. The Survey maps it on the Felton quadrangle. 12,224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Scotts Valley within Santa Cruz County

Then and now

1902 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Scotts Valley, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Scotts Valley, surveyed 1902

On record in Scotts Valley

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Scotts Valley grew from 11,580 to 12,224 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
201011,580
202012,224+644 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 32 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

655 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 655 fires within 5 miles of Scotts Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 321 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 65 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/undetermined285
Equipment and vehicle use140
Arson/incendiarism65
Debris and open burning43
Recreation and ceremony39
Smoking32
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes4
Natural1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHERMON
9 September 2013Smokingunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitCREEKSIDE AV ZAYANTE
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitP.G.&E.#14
8 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitLAKE
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitROAD
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBURTIS
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitQUAIL HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Scotts Valley: 14 past producers, 8 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Granite. 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
Central Supply CoFlagstoneUnknown
Felton QuarryStoneProducer
Henry Cowell Lime & Cement CoLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Stribling MineGoldUnknown
Unnamed LocationClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed LocationClayPast Producer
Bachellor Ranch QuarryGraniteOccurrence
Decomposed Granite PitGraniteOccurrence
Henry Cowell Lime & Cement CoLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Holmes Lime & Cement CoLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Camp Evers0.8 miles32
Mission Springs1.4 miles32
Magnetic Spring (historical)2.0 miles24
Bethany Park2.1 miles24
Mount Hermon2.3 miles32
Olympia2.7 miles32
Beulah Park2.8 miles32
Fontenay Villa3.0 miles24

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 Scotts ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q598266The 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 277598. 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.