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Dairyland, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Chowchilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93610. The Survey maps it on the Chowchilla quadrangle. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Dairyland within Madera County

Then and now

1918 to 1983

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 Dairyland, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Dairyland, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

292 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Dairyland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,471 acres in total. None 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/undetermined172
Equipment and vehicle use50
Debris and open burning33
Smoking19
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2004Debris and open burning200 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitTRIPLE B
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa Unit152
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionROBERTSON
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitHWY 152 W/ ROBERTSON B 3
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa Unit16
4 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitBERENDA #6
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitRD 14 / AVE 22
3 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitZUNIGA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dairyland in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2006FloodDairyland$2,750,000The Berenda Slough had its banks fail between 1130 and 1230 PST on the 4th resulting in widespread water over farmland in Madera County southwest of Chowchilla. Flooding of this type and in this location had not occurred in at least the last 76 years as any high water flows had safely moved past the area within the banks of the area sloughs, creeks, and rivers.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDairyland$10,000A pine tree was downed.
January 2011FloodDairyland$5,000The CHP reported flooding on Avenue 24 at Road 10.
March 2023HailDairyland-An NWS employee measured inch sized diameter hail east of Firebaugh on Hemlock Rd.

Every storm recorded in Madera 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
Tillman (historical)1.8 miles15
Lincoln (historical)1.9 miles15
Plains (historical)2.1 miles15
Ovejo (historical)2.5 miles15
Tyler (historical)2.7 miles15
Ash (historical)3.5 miles15
Califa (historical)7.1 miles19
Bonita7.3 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.

Wikipedia article on DairylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5209588The 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 233752. 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.