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Winter Gardens, California

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the San Diego census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92040. The Survey maps it on the El Cajon quadrangle. 22,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Winter Gardens within San Diego County

Then and now

1893 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Winter Gardens, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Winter Gardens, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Winter Gardens grew from 20,631 to 22,380 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
201020,631
202022,380+1,749 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 surveys from 42 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

533 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 533 fires within 5 miles of Winter Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,428 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined299
Equipment and vehicle use125
Arson/incendiarism36
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Debris and open burning15
Smoking15
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego National Wildlife RefugeSYCUAN
8 September 2008Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitBLOSSOM
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitJENNINGS
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitWILLOW GLEN
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSOUTH 2
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresSan Diego UnitWILLOWS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Diego County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Winter Gardens: 41 past producers, 16 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Coyote Mountains Nickel ProspectNickelOccurrenceGarnierite
Coyote Mtn Gypsum & SSulfur, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducerGypsum
El Granito Mineral SpringsGeothermalProducer
Lakeside Lime and Marl DepositLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Rose QuarryQuartzProducer
Red Rose QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Fletcher DepositUranium, ThoriumProspect
Olswick ProspectThorium, UraniumProspect
Echo MineMolybdenumOccurrence
FernbrookMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite

Every working recorded in San Diego 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
Riverview Farms1.0 miles42
Glenview1.5 miles42
Bostonia1.6 miles42
Riverview1.7 miles42
Lakeview1.7 miles42
Lakeside1.9 miles42
Johnstown2.0 miles42
Santee2.2 miles42

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 Winter GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1957613The 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 1656662. 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.