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Hickman, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Hughson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95323. The Survey maps it on the Denair quadrangle. 604 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Hickman within Stanislaus County

Then and now

1916 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hickman, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hickman, surveyed 1916

Population over time

2 figures

Hickman fell from 641 to 604 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
2010641
2020604-37 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

67 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Hickman between 2005 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Hickman: 8 producers, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Gold. 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
Santa Fe Rock and Sand CoStone, DimensionUnknown
TailingsGoldOccurrence
7-11 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
American Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Charles WarnerSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
George & Wendell G ReedSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel Products CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hickman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hughson Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickman in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 3 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
January 2026FloodHickman-California Highway Patrol reported 3 vehicles stuck in water at Montpellier Road and Whitmore Road from heavy rain.
February 2024FloodHickman-Stanislaus County OES reported the closure of Montpelier Road from Keyes to Whitmore due to flooding. At least 8 other roads within the county were closed due to flooding. Minor street and residential flooding were also reported.
December 2022FloodHickman-Roadway flooding reported at Montpellier Road and Whitmore Road near Foster Farms.

Every storm recorded in Stanislaus 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
Waterford1.3 miles16
Montpelier6.0 miles15
Hughson6.2 miles19
Denair7.1 miles19
Claribel7.3 miles16
Paulsell7.3 miles14
Empire7.9 miles17
Arnold (historical)9.6 miles19

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 HickmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q678569The 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 1656069. 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.