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Tecate, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mountain Empire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91980. The Survey maps it on the Tecate quadrangle. It stands 1,778 feet above sea level.

Tecate within San Diego County

Then and now

1903 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tecate, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Tecate, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

On record in Tecate

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

420 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 420 fires within 5 miles of Tecate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112,614 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 115 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/undetermined160
Arson/incendiarism115
Recreation and ceremony60
Equipment and vehicle use31
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Debris and open burning22
Natural4
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictPOTRERO
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictBORDER 9
6 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictGOODE
5 September 1992Arson/incendiarism10 acresSan Diego UnitTECATE#29
5 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictTECATE
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitTECATE MISSION TECATE
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Diego UnitTECATE RD POTRERO 110
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitDUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tecate: 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Feldspar, Gold, Iron. 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
Companion No. 1 DepositIronProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Last Chance ClaimGoldOccurrence
Pilz DepositFeldspar, SilicaProspect
PotreroSilicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Diego County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tecate in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. 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
July 1999HailTecate-Hail 1.75 inch diameter, heavy rain, and wind gusts to 40 mph were observed.

Every storm recorded in San Diego 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
Potrero2.0 miles30
Barrett Junction4.8 miles28
Canyon City5.4 miles30
Hacienda del Florasol7.3 miles30
Engineer Springs8.1 miles29
Rancho Del Campo8.6 miles19
Campo8.6 miles19
Cameron Corners9.0 miles22

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 TecateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q476569The 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 1661553. 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.