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Fig Garden, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fresno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93704. The Survey maps it on the Fresno North quadrangle. 5,477 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Fig Garden within Fresno County

Then and now

1921 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fig Garden, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Fig Garden, surveyed 1921

Population over time

2 figures

Fig Garden grew from 5,365 to 5,477 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
20105,365
20205,477+112 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

819 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 819 fires within 5 miles of Fig Garden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 85 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/undetermined604
Arson/incendiarism85
Equipment and vehicle use48
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Smoking30
Debris and open burning7
Natural1
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2007Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno 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 Fig Garden: 6 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Granite. 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
Miller BrosStoneUnknown
Raymond Quarry Plant No. 2GraniteProducer
Clay PitClayUnknown
Craycroft Brick Co.ClayProducer
Hans Sumpe Pit and MillClayProducer
Blackstone Pit & Mill Plant No 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
De Paree Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Diener PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fig Garden in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 2003Heavy RainFig Garden$100,000no account filed
February 2008FloodFig Garden$5,000Heavy rain caused a few poor drainage roads to be flooded with several inches of water covering the roads in northwest Fresno, including North Figarden at North Gates, as well as North Golden State Blvd near Ashlan Ave.
December 2007Heavy RainFig Garden$5,000An employee of the NWS measured 1.44 inches of storm total rainfall in the New Fig Garden section.
March 2023FloodFig Garden$1,000Public report of a tree down on the roadway on N. Pleasant Ave. just north of W. Bullard Ave. blocking all lanes and landing on top of a vehicle. The tree was 40 feet long and 2 feet in diameter.
February 2025FloodFig Garden-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the intersection of N. Fruit Ave. and W. Sample Ave.
January 2023FloodFig Garden-Public report of vehicles driving off the road to avoid flooding on W. Calimyrna Ave. in Fresno.
May 2002LightningFig Garden-Three lightning strikes were reported in and around the Bullard High School campus.
January 2012Funnel CloudFig Garden-no account filed
May 2002HailFig Garden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Hammond2.8 miles20
Muscatel2.9 miles20
Pinedale3.2 miles20
Biola Junction3.4 miles20
Figarden3.5 miles20
Cincotta3.7 miles20
Fresno3.9 miles21
Highway City4.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Fig GardenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5790906The 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 2112675. 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.