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Fowler, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fowler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93625. The Survey maps it on the Malaga quadrangle. 6,700 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Fowler within Fresno County

Then and now

1923 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fowler, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Fowler, surveyed 1923

Population over time

2 figures

Fowler grew from 5,570 to 6,700 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
20105,570
20206,700+1,130 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

520 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 520 fires within 5 miles of Fowler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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/undetermined313
Debris and open burning69
Equipment and vehicle use64
Arson/incendiarism41
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking13
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitAMERICAN
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitN ARMSTRONG AVE FOWLER
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitPEACH
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFIELD
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-10981
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unit11870
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionE FLORAL AV /S DE WOLF AV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowler in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 funnel cloud, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2025Funnel CloudFowler-Photo of a thin funnel cloud reported near Fowler by a local resident was posted on social media.
January 2021FloodFowler-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding due to heavy rain at the intersection of S. Clovis Ave. and E. Parlier Ave. near Fowler.
October 2021FloodFowler-California Highway Patrol reported 100 feet of all three northbound lanes of SR 99 north of Manning Ave. were flooded.
April 2017Funnel CloudFowler-A funnel cloud was reported near the Highway 99/Clovis Avenue exchange via picture posted on Facebook.
April 2005Funnel CloudFowler-Several reports from storm chasers and CHP were received in regard to this funnel cloud.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Fowler-A brief touchdown of a small tornado occurred during the late morning of the 9th in Southern Fresno County near the town of Fowler. No damage was reported and the funnel was seen by numerous motorists and the California Highway Patrol.

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
Oleander4.1 miles21
Bowles4.3 miles20
Malaga4.7 miles20
Lone Star4.8 miles20
Mattei4.9 miles20
Del Rey4.9 miles19
Wolf5.0 miles20
Cecile5.3 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 FowlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1705361The 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 1659724. 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.