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Vista Santa Rosa, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coachella Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92274. The Survey maps it on the Indio quadrangle. 2,607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It lies 69 feet below sea level.

Vista Santa Rosa within Riverside County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vista Santa Rosa, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Vista Santa Rosa, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

Vista Santa Rosa fell from 2,926 to 2,607 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
20102,926
20202,607-319 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

682 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 682 fires within 5 miles of Vista Santa Rosa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,003 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 68 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/undetermined334
Equipment and vehicle use87
Arson/incendiarism68
Misuse of fire by a minor61
Debris and open burning54
Smoking41
Recreation and ceremony24
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside UnitAVE 54 COAC
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresRiverside UnitAIRPORT
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresRiverside UnitLOCAL
8 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
7 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL-TREE FIRE
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictLOCAL
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2716
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitMONROE ST / AVE 53

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vista Santa Rosa: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Riverside Co. Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sandy Korner2.2 miles30
Thermal4.3 miles30
Coachella4.3 miles30
Valerie4.5 miles28
One Hundred Palms5.1 miles28
Sunnyside Estates5.3 miles30
La Quinta5.5 miles29
Martinez5.7 miles28

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 Vista Santa RosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6163983The 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 2025249. 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.