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Clyde, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the East Imperial census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92227. The Survey maps it on the Clyde quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Clyde within Imperial County

Then and now

1903 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clyde, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Clyde, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clyde between 2005 and 2010, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSANDRAIL
2 January 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictTROLL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Imperial 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
Ruthven3.4 miles21
Cactus5.2 miles27
Glamis7.9 miles21
Ogilby9.6 miles24
Obregon10.2 miles24
Mesquite10.4 miles19
Dunes12.9 miles24
Inperial Gables14.7 miles19

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 Q5136833The 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 1656463. 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.