Alpaugh, California
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Earlimart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93201. The Survey maps it on the Alpaugh quadrangle. 871 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1929 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresAlpaugh fell from 1,026 to 871 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,026 | |
| 2020 | 871 | -155 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1929 USGS Alpaugh quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Earlimart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Alpaugh quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Alpaugh quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Delano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
161 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Alpaugh between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,471 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 40 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 | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TULARE 68 |
| 6 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 450 acres | Tulare Unit | SANTA FE #4 |
| 30 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 640 acres | Tulare Unit | KERN CO. #16 |
| 29 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tulare Unit | PG&E #1 |
| 24 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Tulare Unit | VALASCO |
| 2 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Tulare Unit | LOPEZ |
| 15 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | TULARE CO. #123 |
| 15 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | TULARE CO. #122 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alpaugh in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Flood | Alpaugh | - | Public report of flooding on Rd. 38 just south of Ave. 50 in Alpaugh. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Alpaugh | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Alpaugh (historical) | 1.2 miles | 24 | |
| Stoil | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Spa (historical) | 4.4 miles | 22 | |
| Allensworth | 5.5 miles | 21 | |
| Angiola | 7.0 miles | 22 | |
| Blanco | 10.3 miles | 19 | |
| Turnbull (historical) | 11.2 miles | 19 | |
| Earlimart | 11.4 miles | 21 |
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 Alpaugh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q742631 | 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 1660246. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.










