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Ducor, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Terra Bella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93218. The Survey maps it on the Ducor quadrangle. 616 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Ducor within Tulare County

Then and now

1929 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ducor, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Ducor, surveyed 1929

Population over time

2 figures

Ducor grew from 612 to 616 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
2010612
2020616+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Ducor between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,126 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/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use57
Arson/incendiarism44
Smoking7
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
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 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTulare UnitSCHULTZ
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY #120
6 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitSTATE OF CALIF. #61
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY #133
30 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresTulare UnitSTATE OF CALIF. #47
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTulare UnitUHL
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitCIRCLE
27 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresTulare UnitRAILROAD

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 Ducor: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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
Ante-UpGoldProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ducor in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 flood, 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
February 2024FloodDucor-California Highway Patrol reported that Road 236 was closed between Ave. 60 and Ave. 80 due to flooding.
February 2023FloodDucor-California Highway Patrol reported Rd. 236 was closed due to flooding between Ave. 80 and Ave. 60 north of Ducor.
February 2019FloodDucor-Tulare County Emergency Manager reported Road 236 was closed for flooding between Ducor and Terra Bella.
December 2002HailDucor-no account filed

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
Orris2.7 miles20
Vestal4.1 miles20
Terra Bella4.9 miles20
Ultra5.6 miles27
Deer Creek Colony6.5 miles20
Elmco7.0 miles20
Fountain Springs7.0 miles27
Richgrove7.3 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 DucorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301203The 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 241659. 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.