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Brito, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Los Banos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93635. The Survey maps it on the Dos Palos quadrangle. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Brito within Merced County

Then and now

1913 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brito, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Brito, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

549 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 549 fires within 5 miles of Brito between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,354 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 50 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/undetermined315
Equipment and vehicle use92
Arson/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning46
Smoking26
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaO STREET
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaROADSIDE
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitGEORGE
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaWOOTEN FIRE
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSan Luis National Wildlife RefugeSANTA FE
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaROADSIDE
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionREYNOLDS AV DOS_PALOS
6 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitBASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brito in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2016Heavy RainBrito-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding at West Eagle Field Road and South Bennett Road intersection at 1953 PST.

Every storm recorded in Merced 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
South Dos Palos3.5 miles20
Gadwall (historical)3.6 miles15
Dos Palos4.4 miles20
Dos Palos Y5.5 miles17
Santa Rita Park7.1 miles18
Abbato (historical)7.6 miles15
Hamburg Farms8.3 miles25
Los Banos8.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q4971492The 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 1655846. 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.