Dos Palos Y, California
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dos Palos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93620. The Survey maps it on the Delta Ranch quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1916 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresDos Palos Y fell from 323 to 310 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 323 | |
| 2020 | 310 | -13 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Delta Ranch quadrangle1:24000
- 1922 USGS Delta Ranch quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Santa Rita Park quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Delta Ranch quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Delta Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rita Park quadrangle1:62500
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Merced quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
415 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 415 fires within 5 miles of Dos Palos Y between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,113 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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/undetermined | 238 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 66 |
| Debris and open burning | 48 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | CARLUCCI RD / HENRY MILLE |
| 9 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | GEORGE |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | WILLIS |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | WILLIS |
| 6 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | REYNOLDS AV DOS_PALOS |
| 6 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | DENTON |
| 6 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | BASS |
| 6 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ROADSIDE 12612 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dos Palos Y in 1 storm report in 1995: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dos Palos Y | $50,000 | Based on doppler Radar indications a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for the Dos Palos Y, 17 miles south-southwest of Merced. Subsequent reports of three-quarters hail along with wind damage to power lines and trees were received. Affected crops included 55 percent loss on 6,300 acres of cotton, with damage to cantaloupe, corn, barley, and tomatoes. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rita Park | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Dos Palos | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Brito | 5.5 miles | 20 | |
| South Dos Palos | 5.9 miles | 20 | |
| Gadwall (historical) | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| El Nido | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Abbato (historical) | 10.2 miles | 15 | |
| Los Banos | 11.4 miles | 15 |
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 Dos Palos Y | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5299188 | The 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 1655978. 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.










