BlockBefore

Val Verde, California

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Newhall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91384. It lies near Sloan Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Val Verde quadrangle. 2,399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,188 feet above sea level.

Val Verde within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1903 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Val Verde, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Val Verde, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Val Verde fell from 2,468 to 2,399 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
20102,468
20202,399-69 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 39 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Val Verde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 133,940 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 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
Equipment and vehicle use88
Arson/incendiarism32
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking9
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning20 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
4 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestROMERO
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestBOX
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
25 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestPARKER
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1149
23 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1153

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Val Verde: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth. 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
OvermanFullers EarthOccurrence

Every working recorded in Los Angeles 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
Del Valle1.8 miles39
Valencia2.5 miles37
Castaic Junction2.7 miles37
Ninetynine Oaks3.0 miles37
Sulphur Springs3.3 miles37
Oberg (historical)3.5 miles38
Castaic3.5 miles37
Mentryville (historical)5.2 miles35

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 Val VerdeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2268355The 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 1661607. 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.