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East Farmersville, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Exeter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93223. The Survey maps it on the Exeter quadrangle.

East Farmersville within Tulare County

Then and now

1926 to 1993

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 East Farmersville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of East Farmersville, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of East Farmersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,395 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 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/undetermined121
Arson/incendiarism58
Equipment and vehicle use53
Debris and open burning22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitFRIANT
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTulare UnitGOLDSMITH
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitFLANIKEN
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitSTATE OF CA #71
5 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitS.J.V.R. #11
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitVAN TOL
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use960 acresTulare UnitSO. CAL. EDISON #12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of East Farmersville: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Magnesite, 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
GrantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mitchell MagnesiteMagnesitePast Producer1916
PageCopper, GoldUnknown
S.P. Brick and Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Charter Oaks SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Garland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcwilliams Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PageCopperOccurrenceVein
Thomas JacobsCopperOccurrenceUnderground

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Farmersville in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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 2023FloodEast Farmersville-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Ave 280 near N. Anderson Rd.

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
Giant Oak (historical)0.4 miles20
Farmersville0.7 miles20
Cameron Creek Colony1.2 miles20
Mitchell Corner1.8 miles20
Rector2.6 miles20
Exeter2.8 miles20
Musk (historical)3.0 miles20
Hypericum3.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122548644The 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 1656493. 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.