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Solromar, California

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Triunfo Pass-Point Mugu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90265. It lies near Little Sycamore Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Triunfo Pass quadrangle. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Solromar within Ventura County

Then and now

1900 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Solromar, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Solromar, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Solromar between 1993 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaDEER CREEK
18 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
11 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaBONEY
4 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaSYCAMORE
22 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaENCINAL
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaFOOSE
14 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaYERBA
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ventura County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solromar in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 debris flow. 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
October 2025Debris FlowSolromar-California reported numerous rocks across the roadway near the intersection of Yerba Buena Road and Cotharin Road.
February 2024Debris FlowSolromar-Heavy rainfall generated a mudslide across Highway 1 near Yerba Buena Road.

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
Sycamore Cove3.6 miles26
Casa Conejo9.2 miles28
Newbury Park9.5 miles28
Triunfo Corner10.1 miles30
Greenwich Village10.2 miles30
Thousand Oaks10.4 miles30
Leisure Village11.8 miles28
Sucrosa (historical)11.8 miles27

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 SolromarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17088555The 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 254274. 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.

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.