Tustin, California
47 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92780. The Survey maps it on the Tustin quadrangle. 80,276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 138 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1896 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1896 against another survey:
On record in Tustin
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 3 records
Artz Buildinglisted 1994
David Hewes Houselisted 2017
Sherman Stevens Houselisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresTustin grew from 75,540 to 80,276 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 75,540 | |
| 2020 | 80,276 | +4,736 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
20 surveys from 47 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.
- 1896 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1902 USGS Corona quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:31680
- 1935 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Tustin quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
254 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Tustin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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 | 151 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Smoking | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Orange County Fire Authority | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Tustin: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Calcium, Barium-Barite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill Mine | Mercury, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Santa Ana Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Red Hill Mine | Mercury | Past Producer | 1927 | |
| Blue Diamond Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cunningham and Son | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Garden Grove Sand & Gravel Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| L. O. Swartzbaugh | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tustin in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Hail | Tustin | 1 killed, $75,000 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Tustin | $15,000 | Five vehicles were submerged when highway 55 flooded at 4th street. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tustin | $2,000 | A tree landed on the roof of home in Tustin on Green Valley Drive from strong winds in line of heavy rain with embedded thunder. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Tustin | - | Widespread heavy rain fell from late morning on January 14 through much of the afternoon. Rain accumulations of 1.25 inch to 2 inches were common across inland Orange County, resulting in widespread flooding reports. The following are reports of flooding from the Department of Highways.||Both lanes of the I-5 north offramp was 4th Ave was flooded in Santa Ana. Four vehicles were stuck in the flood waters.||Farther south, three vehicles were stuck in the flooded onramp to northbound I-5 at Crown Valley Pkwy in Laguna Niguel. |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Tustin | - | A trained spotter shot video of a funnel cloud passing over the Tustin Ranch area. The funnel cloud never made it more than half way to the ground. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aliso | 1.4 miles | 47 | |
| Browning | 1.5 miles | 47 | |
| Villa Valencia | 1.6 miles | 47 | |
| North Tustin | 2.1 miles | 46 | |
| Santa Ana | 2.2 miles | 47 | |
| Hewes Park | 2.5 miles | 46 | |
| Lemon Heights | 2.5 miles | 46 | |
| Myford | 2.7 miles | 47 |
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 Tustin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q917513 | 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 1661590. 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.



















