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Westlake Village, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Agoura Hills-Malibu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91361. It lies near Russell Valley. The Survey maps it on the Thousand Oaks quadrangle. 8,029 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Westlake Village within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1900 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westlake Village, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Westlake Village, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Westlake Village fell from 8,270 to 8,029 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
20108,270
20208,029-241 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Westlake Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38,799 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use35
Smoking13
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Natural2

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVentura County Fire DepartmentBRUSH
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaHAMPSHIRE
25 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaPONYCLUB
22 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaMALIBU
21 September 2009Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
2 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaTRIUNFO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Westlake Village: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Copper, Copper, Nickel. 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
Ventura MineNickel, CopperOccurrence1932
Ventura MineCopper, NickelPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Millerite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Ventura MineNickel, CopperProspect
Prospect MineCopperOccurrence
Quality Rock Company Sand and GravlSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Agoura Hills1.8 miles31
Malibu Junction2.6 miles31
Cornell2.6 miles32
Seminole Hot Springs2.8 miles32
Agoura3.6 miles38
Oak Hill5.7 miles32
Brents Junction5.7 miles40
Malibu Mar Vista (historical)6.2 miles32

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 Westlake VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q474655The 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 1662346. 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.