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.
Then and now
1921 to 1982The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresFig 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,365 | |
| 2020 | 5,477 | +112 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:31680
- 1923 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:31680
- 1946 USGS Fresno North quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Fresno North quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Fresno North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Herndon quadrangle1:62500
- 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
819 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 604 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 85 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 48 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 43 |
| Smoking | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | not named |
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Bros | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Raymond Quarry Plant No. 2 | Granite | Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Craycroft Brick Co. | Clay | Producer | ||
| Hans Sumpe Pit and Mill | Clay | Producer | ||
| Blackstone Pit & Mill Plant No 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| De Paree Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Diener Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2003 | Heavy Rain | Fig Garden | $100,000 | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Flood | Fig Garden | $5,000 | Heavy 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 2007 | Heavy Rain | Fig Garden | $5,000 | An employee of the NWS measured 1.44 inches of storm total rainfall in the New Fig Garden section. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Fig Garden | $1,000 | Public 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 2025 | Flood | Fig Garden | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the intersection of N. Fruit Ave. and W. Sample Ave. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Fig Garden | - | Public report of vehicles driving off the road to avoid flooding on W. Calimyrna Ave. in Fresno. |
| May 2002 | Lightning | Fig Garden | - | Three lightning strikes were reported in and around the Bullard High School campus. |
| January 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Fig Garden | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Fig Garden | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammond | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Muscatel | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Pinedale | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Biola Junction | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Figarden | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Cincotta | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Fresno | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| Highway City | 4.3 miles | 20 |
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 Garden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5790906 | The 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.













