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Chemurgic, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Turlock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95380. The Survey maps it on the Hatch quadrangle.

Chemurgic within Stanislaus County

Then and now

1916 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chemurgic, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Chemurgic, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Chemurgic between 1992 and 2020, burning about 981 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionLANDER
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitHWY 165 / AUGUST AV
11 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitCENTRAL
1 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
28 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionAMERICAN AV / COLUMBUS AV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chemurgic in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 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
December 2023FloodChemurgic-CHP reported roadway flooding at the intersection of Fulkerth Rd and Faith Home Rd.
January 2017Funnel CloudChemurgic-A funnel cloud was sighted and photographed over Ceres, around Central Ave. and Bradbury Rd. There were no reports of touchdown or damage.

Every storm recorded in Stanislaus 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
Hatch2.6 miles16
Turlock4.4 miles17
Keyes6.4 miles20
Esmar (historical)7.2 miles20
Denair7.8 miles19
Hills Ferry8.6 miles17
Harp8.8 miles20
Ceres9.3 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 Q122540906The 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 1658261. 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.