BlockCalipatria, California
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Calipatria-Westmorland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92233. The Survey maps it on the Niland quadrangle. 6,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It lies 164 feet below sea level.
Then and now
1944 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 48 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 figuresCalipatria fell from 7,705 to 6,515 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 | 7,705 | |
| 2020 | 6,515 | -1,190 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1944 USGS Calipatria quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Salton Sea quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Salton Sea quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Niland quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Salton Sea quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Salton Sea quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salton Sea quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Calipatria quadrangle1:50000
- 1985 USGS Salton Sea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Niland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calipatria in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calipatria | $1,000,000 | An article from a local newspaper reported numerous transmission and distribution power poles were down in an area between Calipatria and Niland due to damaging wind gusts. According to the Imperial Irrigation District, over 100 power poles were knocked down by the storm. Photos shared on social media showed multiple power poles down along Lindsey Road and Gentry Road. No injuries were reported. Timing was estimated using radar. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calipatria | $200,000 | Thunderstorms developed across the central portion of Imperial County during the early afternoon hours and they moved quickly to the north, producing strong gusty and damaging outflow winds which impacted portions of the Imperial Valley as well as the town of Calipatria. According to local emergency managers, at 1300PST gusty microburst winds estimated to be as high as 70 mph blew down 23 power poles in the town of Calipatria. The poles were downed on Young Road, near Highway 111. No injuries were reported due to the downed poles. |
| August 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Calipatria | - | A small tornado was reported which knocked down power lines and tore part of the roof off a school building. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernice (historical) | 1.3 miles | 20 | |
| Verdant | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Estelle | 3.5 miles | 22 | |
| Shamrock (historical) | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Rockwood | 5.3 miles | 20 | |
| Mayflower (historical) | 5.4 miles | 21 | |
| Wiest | 5.8 miles | 21 | |
| Fondo | 5.9 miles | 20 |
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 Calipatria | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q931778 | 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 1652681. 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.
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.