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Del Rey, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Parlier-Del Rey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93616. The Survey maps it on the Sanger quadrangle. 1,358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Del Rey within Fresno County

Then and now

1923 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Del Rey, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Del Rey, surveyed 1923

Population over time

2 figures

Del Rey fell from 1,639 to 1,358 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
20101,639
20201,358-281 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

501 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 501 fires within 5 miles of Del Rey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,219 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 60 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/undetermined262
Debris and open burning74
Equipment and vehicle use64
Arson/incendiarism60
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitE BULAH AVE PARLIER
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionE LINCOLN AVE /S GREENWOO
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionS BETHEL AVE /E LINCOLN A
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitACADEMY
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitN ARMSTRONG AVE FOWLER
7 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitNEWMARK
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMADSEN
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionE ADAMS AV / DE WOLF AV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Del Rey: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Central Valley Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Industrial Asphalt IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed LocationBerylliumProducer
Unnamed LocationBerylliumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fresno 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
Reka (historical)3.0 miles19
Wolf3.4 miles20
Miley3.6 miles21
Sanger3.9 miles19
Clotho4.4 miles19
Fargo (historical)4.5 miles19
Parlier4.8 miles21
Ivesta4.9 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 Del ReyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q596836The 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 1658399. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.