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East Orosi, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Orosi-Cutler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93647. The Survey maps it on the Orange Cove South quadrangle. 423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

East Orosi within Tulare County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 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 Orosi, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of East Orosi, surveyed 1922

Population over time

2 figures

East Orosi fell from 495 to 423 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
2010495
2020423-72 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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 East Orosi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,975 acres in total. None started naturally. 197 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/incendiarism197
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Equipment and vehicle use50
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Debris and open burning22
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTulare UnitSULTANA
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTulare UnitMASSIE
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTulare UnitALTA#5
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTulare UnitHUERTA
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitCHURCH
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitEAST
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresTulare UnitPINKERTON
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTulare UnitOLYMPIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Orosi: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
BezzaridesUraniumProspect
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
DickeyGranitePast Producer
Ledbetter Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Orosi1.4 miles22
Wyeth2.0 miles22
Cutler2.2 miles22
Wimp3.4 miles27
Primero (historical)4.0 miles22
Sultana4.2 miles22
Calgro4.2 miles19
Yettem4.3 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 East OrosiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2526542The 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 1658460. 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.