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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.

Dos Palos Y within Merced County

Then and now

1916 to 1983

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Dos Palos Y, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Dos Palos Y, surveyed 1916

Population over time

2 figures

Dos 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.

YearPeople Change
2010323
2020310-13 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

415 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined238
Equipment and vehicle use66
Debris and open burning48
Arson/incendiarism28
Smoking21
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitCARLUCCI RD / HENRY MILLE
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitGEORGE
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionWILLIS
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitWILLIS
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionREYNOLDS AV DOS_PALOS
6 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitDENTON
6 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitBASS
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE 12612

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindDos Palos Y$50,000Based 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.

Every storm recorded in Merced 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
Santa Rita Park2.1 miles18
Dos Palos4.4 miles20
Brito5.5 miles20
South Dos Palos5.9 miles20
Gadwall (historical)7.1 miles15
El Nido9.6 miles14
Abbato (historical)10.2 miles15
Los Banos11.4 miles15

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 YAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5299188The 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.