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Corcoran, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Corcoran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93212. The Survey maps it on the Corcoran quadrangle. 22,339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Corcoran within Kings County

Then and now

1928 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Corcoran, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Corcoran, surveyed 1928

Population over time

2 figures

Corcoran fell from 24,813 to 22,339 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201024,813
202022,339-2,474 (-10%)

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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Corcoran between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,991 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Natural2
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 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY #121
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTulare UnitHANSON
21 September 1998Debris and open burning20 acresTulare UnitAPCD #146
21 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCentral California DistrictE-M
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
15 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreTulare UnitCORTEZ
14 September 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresTulare UnitNUNES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corcoran in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 2 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 WindCorcoran$50,000Public report in Corcoran of Thunderstorm winds producing damage to a house and snapping several trees. Beams from a wood fence were snapped from from concrete support and shingles were blown off of a roof.
September 2017HailCorcoran-Public report of nickel sized hail in Corcoran.
February 2007HailCorcoran-no account filed
July 2003LightningCorcoran-no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudCorcoran-no account filed
March 1996Funnel CloudCorcoran-no account filed

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
South Corcoran0.6 miles19
Bean (historical)3.0 miles19
Helm Corner4.4 miles20
Guernsey9.0 miles19
Odessa (historical)12.8 miles17
Home Garden14.7 miles17
Stratford15.3 miles21
Fort Roosevelt16.0 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.

Wikipedia article on CorcoranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q913487The 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 1652690. 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.