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Dinuba, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dinuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93618. The Survey maps it on the Reedley quadrangle. 24,563 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Dinuba within Tulare County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dinuba, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Dinuba, surveyed 1922

Population over time

3 figures

Dinuba grew from 16,844 to 24,563 between 2000 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
200016,844
201021,453+4,609 (+27%)
202024,563+3,110 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Dinuba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 560 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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/undetermined84
Equipment and vehicle use49
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning34
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTulare UnitSULTANA
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTulare UnitHUERTA
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionS BUTTONWILLOW AV REEDLE
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitJOST
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHUNT
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresFresno-Kings Unit12TH ST REEDLEY
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE CO#86
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dinuba: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dinuba Magnesite Co.MagnesitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dinuba in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindDinuba$50,000Knocking down trees into powerlines, thunderstorm wind left 3100 customers without power in areas of Northwest Tulare County, including the Dinuba area.
August 2007LightningDinuba$17,000Strong thunderstorms and lightning brought a tree down on South Santa Fe Street in Visalia and caused power outages in Visalia and Dinuba. A sidewalk and wrought-iron fence were damaged in Visalia.
March 2023FloodDinuba$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a tree on all lanes of Rd. 96.
January 2023FloodDinuba-Public report of a telephone pole leaning towards the roadway east of the railroad tracks at the intersection of Ave 424 and Rd. 72.
February 2023Heavy RainDinuba-Public report in Dinuba of measured rainfall of 3.26 inches of rainfall on February 24 and the morning of February 25.
November 2019Funnel CloudDinuba-Fresno Television Station reported a funnel cloud over Dinuba.
February 2014FloodDinuba-Small hail, frequent cloud to ground lightning, wind gusts to 50 mph, and flooded roads along Road 80 just south of Dinuba. This weather was caused by a cluster of thunderstorms moving through the area.
April 2012FloodDinuba-The California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Road 80 at Avenue 392.
October 2004Tornado (F0)Dinuba-A rope shaped tornado was relatively stationary even as the parent cell moved northeast. The tornado was short-lived as reported by a spotter and did not have an extensive ground track. No damage was seen in the rural area at the time nor noted by a subsequent NWS survey.
February 1998FloodDinuba-About 6 commercial buildings were threatened by high water due to locally heavy rains in downtown Dinuba.

Every storm recorded in Tulare 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
Enson1.3 miles23
Tokay1.6 miles22
North Dinuba1.7 miles23
Smyrna (historical)2.2 miles22
Sultana2.5 miles22
Ivory2.6 miles23
Delft Colony3.8 miles23
Monson4.4 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.

Wikipedia article on DinubaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986906The 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 1658422. 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.

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.