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Farmington, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Linden-Farmington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95230. It stands on North Fork Duck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peters quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Farmington within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1915 to 1989

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 Farmington, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Farmington, surveyed 1915

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington grew from 207 to 220 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
2010207
2020220+13 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Farmington between 1992 and 2019, burning about 304 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionWAVERLY
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCOOK#3
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitWAVERLY
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCOOK
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitESCALON
5 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCOOK
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitWAVERLY
28 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitWAGONER #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Farmington: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, 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
Unnamed Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitGoldUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 2 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
February 2026FloodFarmington-Roadway flooding was reported by California Highway Patrol.
January 2023FloodFarmington-Caltrans reported Eastbound and Westbound 4 were fully closed From Buckman Road to Waverly Road due to roadway wash-out/slip-out.

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin 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
Peters4.3 miles17
Avena (historical)6.9 miles17
Linden7.7 miles24
Collegeville8.0 miles20
Bellota (historical)8.5 miles24
Escalon9.1 miles17
Van Allen9.5 miles17
Carrolton9.8 miles17

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 FarmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233477The 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 1656009. 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.