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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.

Tustin within Orange County

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Tustin, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Tustin, surveyed 1896

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

Population over time

2 figures

Tustin 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.

YearPeople Change
201075,540
202080,276+4,736 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 47 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

254 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined151
Arson/incendiarism36
Smoking26
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOrange County Fire Authoritynot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Red Hill MineMercury, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Santa Ana PlantCalciumProducer
Red Hill MineMercuryPast Producer1927
Blue Diamond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cunningham and SonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Garden Grove Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L. O. SwartzbaughSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2000HailTustin1 killed, $75,000no account filed
October 2004Flash FloodTustin$15,000Five vehicles were submerged when highway 55 flooded at 4th street.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindTustin$2,000A 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 2023FloodTustin-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 2005Funnel CloudTustin-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.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Aliso1.4 miles47
Browning1.5 miles47
Villa Valencia1.6 miles47
North Tustin2.1 miles46
Santa Ana2.2 miles47
Hewes Park2.5 miles46
Lemon Heights2.5 miles46
Myford2.7 miles47

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 TustinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q917513The 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.