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Sedco Hills, California

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Elsinore Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92530. It lies near Railroad Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Lake Elsinore quadrangle. 3,078 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

Sedco Hills within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

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 Sedco Hills, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Sedco Hills, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 38 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

1,338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,338 fires within 5 miles of Sedco Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,527 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 88 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/undetermined671
Equipment and vehicle use270
Misuse of fire by a minor125
Arson/incendiarism88
Smoking56
Recreation and ceremony46
Debris and open burning44
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Natural11
Fireworks3
Other causes2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitCOMO ST WILD
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitMISSION TRL WILD
9 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCleveland National ForestWILDOMAR
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL FIRE
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitCATHEDRAL PEAK RD MENI
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitE LAKESHORE DR LELS
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresRiverside UnitNEWPORT IC
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitSTATE-1745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Sedco Hills: 15 prospects, 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
American Flag and Monarch MinesTin, Cobalt, NickelUnknown
Best Ranch DepositLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Best Ranch DepositLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Bundy-Murrieta DepositFeldspar, SilicaProspect
Electric Copper and GoldCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Electric Copper and Gold MineCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Palisades GroupLead, Copper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Palisades GroupLead, Silver, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Shining Star GroupArsenic, Gold, IronOccurrence
Lake Elsinore Hotel SpringGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedco Hills in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flood. 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
September 2014FloodSedco Hills-Heavy rain resulted in 2 inches of flowing water across Bundy Canyon Road and Harvest Way east.

Every storm recorded in Riverside 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
Lake Elsinore2.7 miles38
Lakeland Village2.8 miles38
Wildomar3.0 miles35
Canyon Lake3.1 miles38
North Elsinore4.2 miles38
Quail Valley5.1 miles35
La Cresta5.6 miles35
Terra Cotta6.1 miles38

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 Sedco HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1900684The 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 1652794. 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.