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Camden, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Laton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93242. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle. It stands 236 feet above sea level.

Camden within Fresno County

Then and now

1924 to 1993

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 Camden, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Camden, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Camden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined106
Equipment and vehicle use43
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning26
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHAY
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHWY 41 /W HARLAN AV
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings Unit4FKU011434
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-38673
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit3FKU10960
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHIGHWAY
3 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitRIVERDALE #15
28 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-41838

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCamden$10,000California Highway Patrol reported a downed power line and a downed tree on East St. at the intersection of Wood Ave.
January 2023FloodCamden-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Elm Ave. and Davis Ave.
April 2020Funnel CloudCamden-Several public reports and videos were received of a funnel cloud near Laton.

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Clint1.3 miles18
Robinson (historical)3.1 miles18
Riverdale3.3 miles18
Lillis (historical)4.3 miles18
Laton5.9 miles18
Schilling6.3 miles22
Lanare7.1 miles22
Conejo7.3 miles20

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 Q5025709The 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 240063. 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.