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El Nido, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Merced census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95317. It stands on Old Chowchilla Creek. The Survey maps it on the El Nido quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

El Nido within Merced County

Then and now

1918 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of El Nido, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of El Nido, surveyed 1918

Population over time

2 figures

El Nido grew from 330 to 331 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
2010330
2020331+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

362 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 362 fires within 5 miles of El Nido between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,191 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined242
Equipment and vehicle use58
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking13
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
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
9 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaBRASIL
8 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitDITCH
7 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitGOMES
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitSANDY
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSan Luis National Wildlife RefugeCOBBLESTONE
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitCOOPER
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionE WASHINGTON RD EL_NIDO
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitHWY 152 W/ RD 4 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Nido in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 funnel cloud. 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
February 2019FloodEl Nido$10,000Due to heavy rainfall in the area, the Mariposa Creek Reservoir released 1000 CFS which caused State Route 59 to close between Sandy Mush Road and Mission Ave. as runoff came close to covering the road. This prompted the issuance of an Aerial Flood Advisory for the aforementioned area. The road was opened during the morning of February 14 after levee repairs were made.
January 2023FloodEl Nido-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along W. Sandy Mush Rd. near S. Gurr Rd.
January 2023FloodEl Nido-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along Sandy Mush Rd. near Gurr Rd.
November 2019Funnel CloudEl Nido-Video posted on twitter showed a funnel cloud over El Nido.
January 2006Funnel CloudEl Nido-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Merced 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
Santa Rita Park8.1 miles18
Athlone8.7 miles16
Lingard8.8 miles14
La Branza (historical)9.6 miles16
Dos Palos Y9.6 miles17
Plainsburg11.2 miles16
Merced11.5 miles16
Kadota11.8 miles16

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 El NidoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478167The 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 233836. 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.

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.