Sea Cliff, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ventura census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93001. It lies near Madranio Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Pitas Point quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Sea Cliff within Ventura County

Then and now

1904 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sea Cliff, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet of Sea Cliff, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1904 USGS Ventura quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1941 USGS Ventura quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Pitas Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Pitas Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1982 USGS Santa Barbara quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sea Cliff between 1995 and 2020, burning about 6,062 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Los Padres National Forest	CASITAS
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
18 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Padres National Forest	RED
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
22 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4,500 acres	Fort Hunter Liggett	MISSION
2 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ventura County Fire Department	not named
17 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Los Padres National Forest	CASITAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mussel Shoals	1.5 miles	27
La Conchita	2.0 miles	27
Los Pitos (historical)	2.4 miles	27
Faria	2.4 miles	27
Rincon	3.7 miles	27
Dulah	3.8 miles	29
Foster Park	6.0 miles	29
Casitas Springs	6.2 miles	29

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 Sea Cliff	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3953520	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 254228. 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.