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.
Then and now
1901 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 38 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.
- 1901 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Lake Elsinore quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Lake Elsinore quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Lake Elsinore quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1,338 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 671 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 270 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 125 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 88 |
| Smoking | 56 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 22 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Riverside Unit | COMO ST WILD |
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Riverside Unit | MISSION TRL WILD |
| 9 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cleveland National Forest | WILDOMAR |
| 9 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Riverside Unit | LOCAL FIRE |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Riverside Unit | CATHEDRAL PEAK RD MENI |
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Riverside Unit | E LAKESHORE DR LELS |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Riverside Unit | NEWPORT IC |
| 8 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Riverside Unit | STATE-1745 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 38 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Flag and Monarch Mines | Tin, Cobalt, Nickel | Unknown | ||
| Best Ranch Deposit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Best Ranch Deposit | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Bundy-Murrieta Deposit | Feldspar, Silica | Prospect | ||
| Electric Copper and Gold | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Electric Copper and Gold Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Palisades Group | Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Palisades Group | Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Shining Star Group | Arsenic, Gold, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Lake Elsinore Hotel Spring | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Flood | Sedco Hills | - | Heavy rain resulted in 2 inches of flowing water across Bundy Canyon Road and Harvest Way east. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Elsinore | 2.7 miles | 38 | |
| Lakeland Village | 2.8 miles | 38 | |
| Wildomar | 3.0 miles | 35 | |
| Canyon Lake | 3.1 miles | 38 | |
| North Elsinore | 4.2 miles | 38 | |
| Quail Valley | 5.1 miles | 35 | |
| La Cresta | 5.6 miles | 35 | |
| Terra Cotta | 6.1 miles | 38 |
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 Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1900684 | 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 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.














