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Caruthers, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Caruthers-Raisin City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93609. The Survey maps it on the Caruthers quadrangle. 2,613 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Caruthers within Fresno County

Then and now

1925 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Caruthers, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Caruthers, surveyed 1925

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Caruthers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,456 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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/undetermined107
Debris and open burning70
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism36
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2016Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection41
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresFresno-Kings Unit8FKU038635
9 September 1994Debris and open burning10 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-9402
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFresno-Kings UnitS ELM AVE CARUTHERS
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitCORN
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitKAMM
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitW DINUBA AV /S VALENTINE
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitNEBRASKA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caruthers in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 WindCaruthers$50,000Broadcast Media report of a chicken barn blown down by thunderstorm downburst outflow winds.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCaruthers$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a downed tree on W. Saginaw Ave west of S. Elm Ave.
June 2009LightningCaruthers$1,000A utility pole was struck by lightning and set on fire near Caruthers.
November 2024FloodCaruthers-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on West Ave. near Conejo Ave. in Caruthers.
December 2016Heavy RainCaruthers-Spotter report of 24 hour rainfall total of 0.27 inches.
February 2000Tornado (F0)Caruthers-Reported 48 hours late by a storm spotter. Another tornado within this event in a rural area of Fresno County (intersection of Parlier and Brawley to Parlier and Valentine). The tornado moved east over open land and fallow row crops. No damage.
April 2005Funnel CloudCaruthers-no account filed
March 1996HailCaruthers-no account filed

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
Elm View2.2 miles20
Monmouth5.2 miles20
Raisin City5.6 miles18
Bowles6.1 miles20
Conejo6.3 miles20
Oleander7.6 miles21
Easton7.8 miles21
Riverdale7.8 miles18

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 CaruthersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671627The 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 277485. 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.