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Spring Valley Lake, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Victorville-Hesperia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92395. The Survey maps it on the Hesperia quadrangle. 9,598 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,779 feet above sea level.

Spring Valley Lake within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1901 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Valley Lake, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Spring Valley Lake, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Valley Lake grew from 8,220 to 9,598 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
20108,220
20209,598+1,378 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

383 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 383 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 572 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined264
Arson/incendiarism49
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Smoking15
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino Unitnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSTODDARD
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Bernardino Unitnot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitBOLDING
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Spring Valley Lake: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General, Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
ConchaGold, LeadOccurrence
EurekaCopper, GoldProspect
Feldspar MineFeldsparPast Producer
H and P Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Martre White Pit and MillSilicaPast Producer
MillionaireSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadOccurrence
Victorite QuarryTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Victorville PlantCalciumProducer
Lif PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Victorville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Bernardino 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
Frost1.3 miles24
Thorn1.4 miles29
Greentree East1.8 miles24
Desert Knolls2.1 miles24
Sunset Hills2.4 miles35
Victorville3.2 miles24
Desert Knolls Manor4.1 miles21
Valley High North4.3 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 Spring Valley LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6133445The 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 2652389. 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.