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Calgro, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Orosi-Cutler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93615. The Survey maps it on the Monson quadrangle. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Calgro within Tulare County

Then and now

1927 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Calgro, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Calgro, surveyed 1927

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

422 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Calgro between 1992 and 2014, burning about 1,769 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 221 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
Arson/incendiarism221
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Equipment and vehicle use59
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Debris and open burning22
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTulare UnitSULTANA
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTulare UnitMASSIE
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTulare UnitHUERTA
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitCHURCH
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitEAST
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresTulare UnitPINKERTON
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTulare UnitOLYMPIC
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined158 acresTulare UnitCANAL F# 72

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Calgro: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calgro in 1 storm report in 2023: 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 2023FloodCalgro-Public report of Rd. 132 just south of Ave. 384 flooded for two miles.

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
Yettem1.4 miles19
Wyeth2.3 miles22
Cutler2.3 miles22
Wimp2.3 miles27
Monson2.7 miles19
Seville3.3 miles21
Orosi3.8 miles22
East Orosi4.2 miles22

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 CalgroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5019736The 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 1660412. 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.

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.