Valle de los Caballos, California

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Murrieta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92592. It lies near Buck Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Bachelor Mountain quadrangle.

Valle de los Caballos within Riverside County

Then and now

1901 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valle de los Caballos, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Valle de los Caballos, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 36 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.

1901 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1942 USGS Murrieta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Murrieta quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Bachelor Mtn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Bachelor Mtn. quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Bachelor Mtn quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Valle de los Caballos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,634 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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	202
Equipment and vehicle use	75
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Arson/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	18
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Riverside Unit	BLUE WATER WY TEM
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Riverside Unit	BUNKER DR TEM
8 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Riverside Unit	LOCAL
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	198 acres	California Desert District	BELLA
4 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Riverside Unit	BUENA
4 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Riverside Unit	STATE
30 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Riverside Unit	CALLE
3 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Riverside Unit	STATE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Glenoaks Country	1.9 miles	36
High Acres Haciendas	2.8 miles	36
South Park	3.3 miles	36
Glenoak Hills	3.3 miles	40
Auld (historical)	4.3 miles	36
Temecula Ranchos	4.5 miles	33
Country Manor Estates	4.8 miles	33
Butterfield Lake Estates	5.2 miles	33

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.

Wikidata item Q122564844

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 1868127. 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.