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.
Then and now
1929 to 1993The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresEarlimart 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,537 | |
| 2020 | 7,679 | -858 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1929 USGS Pixley quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Earlimart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Pixley quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Pixley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Delano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
510 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 164 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 154 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 86 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Smoking | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 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 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | SOUTHERN PAC RR #35 |
| 8 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | APCD 128 |
| 7 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Tulare Unit | UNION PACIFIC#24 |
| 7 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | JONES |
| 6 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Tulare Unit | STATE OF CALIF #92 |
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pixley National Wildlife Refuge | TEVISTON |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | ROBLES |
| 5 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | STATE CALIF #34 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Flood | Earlimart | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the southbound SR 99 Ave 48 offramp in Earlimart. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Earlimart | - | Public report of tree and branch debris washed up on the offramp to Sierra Ave. off of northbound SR 99 in Earlimart. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Earlimart | - | California Highway Patrol reported Ave. 56 flooded east of SR 99 in Earlimart. |
| June 2023 | Flood | Earlimart | - | California Highway Patrol reported Ave. 48 was shut down in Earlimart near the intersection of SR 99 due to roadway flooding. |
| March 1998 | Flash Flood | Earlimart | - | 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 2005 | Heavy Rain | Earlimart | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Lightning | Earlimart | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Lightning | Earlimart | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Earlimart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2235532 | 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 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.










