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Earlimart, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Earlimart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93219. The Survey maps it on the Pixley quadrangle. 7,679 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 282 feet above sea level.

Earlimart 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 Earlimart, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Earlimart, surveyed 1929

Population over time

2 figures

Earlimart fell from 8,537 to 7,679 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
20108,537
20207,679-858 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

510 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 510 fires within 5 miles of Earlimart between 1992 and 2012, burning about 3,245 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 164 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
Arson/incendiarism164
Missing data/not specified/undetermined154
Equipment and vehicle use86
Debris and open burning41
Smoking34
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural2

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 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitSOUTHERN PAC RR #35
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePixley National Wildlife RefugeAPCD 128
7 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTulare UnitUNION PACIFIC#24
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acrePixley National Wildlife RefugeJONES
6 September 2006Smokingunder an acreTulare UnitSTATE OF CALIF #92
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePixley National Wildlife RefugeTEVISTON
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitROBLES
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitSTATE CALIF #34

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Earlimart: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earlimart in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 flood, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2025FloodEarlimart-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the southbound SR 99 Ave 48 offramp in Earlimart.
January 2023FloodEarlimart-Public report of tree and branch debris washed up on the offramp to Sierra Ave. off of northbound SR 99 in Earlimart.
March 2023FloodEarlimart-California Highway Patrol reported Ave. 56 flooded east of SR 99 in Earlimart.
June 2023FloodEarlimart-California Highway Patrol reported Ave. 48 was shut down in Earlimart near the intersection of SR 99 due to roadway flooding.
March 1998Flash FloodEarlimart-The White River again breached its banks but water flows only affected State Highway 99 and farm land. There was minimal impact to the community of Earlimart this time. The higher water in the river was the result of widespread and heavy rain shower and thundershower activity.
April 2005Heavy RainEarlimart-no account filed
July 2003LightningEarlimart-no account filed
October 2000LightningEarlimart-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
Radnor3.8 miles23
Pixley5.9 miles21
Allensworth6.3 miles21
Jovista7.6 miles19
Saucelito8.2 miles19
Stoil8.4 miles22
Quail8.8 miles20
Trocha8.9 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 EarlimartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2235532The 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 1652700. 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.