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Cimarron, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lemoore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93245. The Survey maps it on the Lemoore quadrangle. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Cimarron within Kings 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 Cimarron, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Cimarron, surveyed 1927

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Cimarron between 1992 and 2018, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
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
1 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unitnot named
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
8 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 June 2013Debris and open burning1.9 acresFresno-Kings Unitnot named
4 June 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.4 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU6070

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cimarron in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 4 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 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
February 2023FloodCimarron-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding just east of the SR 198/18th Ave onramp and flooding on eastbound SR 198 under the 17th Ave and Houston Ave exchange.
March 2023FloodCimarron-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on eastbound SR 198 east of 18th Ave.
January 2017Heavy RainCimarron-Trained Spotter reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 0.45 inches near Lemoore in Kings County.
May 2016Heavy RainCimarron-NWS employee reported road flooding in southeast Lemoore at 1810 PST.
May 2016Heavy RainCimarron-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding due to blocked storm drains on SR 198 and 18th Avenue off-ramp in Lemoore at 1810 PST.
January 2014Heavy RainCimarron-Twenty four hour spotter rainfall in Lemoore of 0.17 inch.
October 2007HailCimarron-A trained spotter reported penny sized hail at Highway 41 near Mount Whitney Avenue.
October 2007HailCimarron-Trained spotter reported penny sized hail at Grangeville Road and Highway 41.

Every storm recorded in Kings 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
Rossi1.0 miles19
Lemoore1.6 miles19
Halls Corner3.1 miles19
Cuneo (historical)3.6 miles21
Lethent (historical)3.8 miles19
Orion (historical)4.0 miles17
Armona5.7 miles17
Grangeville6.4 miles17

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 Q5120083The 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 1660486. 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.