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East Porterville, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Porterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93257. It lies near Martin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Success Dam quadrangle. 5,549 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

East Porterville within Tulare County

Then and now

1904 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 74 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 Porterville, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of East Porterville, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

East Porterville fell from 6,767 to 5,549 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
20106,767
20205,549-1,218 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

784 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 784 fires within 5 miles of East Porterville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,819 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 376 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/incendiarism376
Missing data/not specified/undetermined221
Equipment and vehicle use93
Misuse of fire by a minor50
Smoking21
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitHAVERT
9 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitRIVERBOTTOM #22
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitCARTAN
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitPETTIS
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitHARBISON
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitTULE #26
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTulare UnitLIME
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined335 acresTulare UnitROADRUNNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of East Porterville: 21 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Deer Creek SilverCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Holston Chromite DepositIron, ChromiumPast Producer1895
Holston MineChromium, Rhodium, Ruthenium, Iridium, Palladium, PlatinumPast Producer1895, 1918
Middletons Sequoia Rock Co.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Porterville White Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer1915
Prospect Near Holston ChromeChromium, Platinum, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Iridium, PalladiumOccurrenceChromite
Valencia HeightsClayOccurrence
Deer Creek ChrysopraseGemstonePast Producer1897
Deer Creek MineMagnesite, NickelProspect
Deer Creek Nickeliferous MagnesiteNickel, MagnesiteProspect

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
Alta Vista (historical)0.6 miles27
Lumer1.6 miles27
Plano2.0 miles23
Worth2.1 miles27
Roche2.2 miles23
Porterville2.2 miles23
Sunland2.4 miles27
Ponca2.4 miles23

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 PortervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2676537The 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 1867018. 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.