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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.

Alpaugh within Tulare County

Then and now

1929 to 1993

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Alpaugh, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Alpaugh, surveyed 1929

Population over time

2 figures

Alpaugh 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,026
2020871-155 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

161 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism40
Equipment and vehicle use38
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning11
Smoking5
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE 68
6 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use450 acresTulare UnitSANTA FE #4
30 September 1995Arson/incendiarism640 acresTulare UnitKERN CO. #16
29 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitPG&E #1
24 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTulare UnitVALASCO
2 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use80 acresTulare UnitLOPEZ
15 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePixley National Wildlife RefugeTULARE CO. #123
15 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePixley National Wildlife RefugeTULARE CO. #122

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023FloodAlpaugh-Public report of flooding on Rd. 38 just south of Ave. 50 in Alpaugh.
March 2006HailAlpaugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tulare 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
West Alpaugh (historical)1.2 miles24
Stoil3.9 miles22
Spa (historical)4.4 miles22
Allensworth5.5 miles21
Angiola7.0 miles22
Blanco10.3 miles19
Turnbull (historical)11.2 miles19
Earlimart11.4 miles21

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 AlpaughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q742631The 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.