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Tres Pinos, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hollister census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95075. It lies near Arroyo Hondo. The Survey maps it on the Tres Pinos quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Tres Pinos within San Benito County

Then and now

1919 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tres Pinos, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Tres Pinos, surveyed 1919

Population over time

2 figures

Tres Pinos fell from 476 to 443 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
2010476
2020443-33 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Tres Pinos between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,006 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/undetermined64
Equipment and vehicle use63
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitSCHOOL 4
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSan Benito-Monterey UnitMURPHY
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitMARANATHA
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCABEU003577
29 September 1992Smokingunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitCAMP
27 September 1993Smokingunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitFAIRVIEW #3
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitAIRLINE HWY / PANOCHE RD
26 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Benito-Monterey UnitJOHNSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Benito County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Tres Pinos: 6 producers, 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Clay, Copper, Arsenic. 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
Dr. J. M. O'Donnell DepositClayOccurrence
Evans Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrenceRhodochrosite
Harris Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Riley RanchCopper, ArsenicOccurrenceMalachite
Riley RanchCopper, ArsenicUnknown
Hollister Dolamite QuarryMagnesitePast Producer
WestvacoMagnesiteProducer
Dooley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Benito County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tres Pinos in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 flood, 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
February 2024FloodTres Pinos-A creek ran over the road near California Highway 25 at Southside Road.
October 2016FloodTres Pinos-Heavy rain results in roadway flooding on SR 25 near Tres Pinos.
March 2008HailTres Pinos-NWS Employee travelling in area noticed 1 inch hail falling from the thunderstorm at Paicines.

Every storm recorded in San Benito 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
Ridgemark2.8 miles24
Vineyard (historical)4.4 miles26
Paicines4.8 miles21
Hollister6.1 miles26
Cottage Corners6.9 miles26
Duri (historical)7.1 miles26
Morse9.7 miles26
Hudner10.3 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 Tres PinosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476124The 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 1660025. 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.