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Holtville, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Holtville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92250. The Survey maps it on the Holtville West quadrangle. 5,605 people lived here at the 2020 count. It lies 10 feet below sea level.

Holtville within Imperial County

Then and now

1907 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holtville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Holtville, surveyed 1907

Population over time

2 figures

Holtville fell from 5,939 to 5,605 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
20105,939
20205,605-334 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Holtville between 1994 and 2013, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Diego UnitMONTECITO
2 July 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
13 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 June 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSan Diego Unitnot named
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 May 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
15 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSan Diego Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Imperial County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holtville in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHoltville$20,000Thunderstorms with damaging microburst winds moved through Imperial county during the afternoon hours on September 13th. Law enforcement personnel reported that part of a building, an older structure, was blown onto the road near the intersection of Orchard and Bailey, in the community of Holtville. The winds were estimated to be at least 65 knots.
August 2023Flash FloodHoltville-CHP reported flash flooding near Orchard Road and Edwards Road. No injuries were reported.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindHoltville-Isolated late afternoon thunderstorms moved through central portions of Imperial county and they affected the community of Holtville. The moist and very unstable nature of the atmosphere allowed the stronger storms to generate strong and gusty outflow winds. A trained weather spotter in Holtville estimated a peak thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph and no damage was reported due to the strong wind gust. A Severe Thunderstorm Warnng was in effect at the time; it was issued at 1557PST and it ran through 1715PST.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHoltville-Tropical moisture from dissipating former tropical storm Ivo spread north into Imperial county on August 24th, and this resulted in a very moist and unstable airmass. Strong thunderstorms developed across portions of central Imperial county during the early afternoon hours, and the storms generated strong gusty winds. According to a trained weather spotter just south of Holtville, a peak wind gust was measured at 60 mph. The strong winds had been gusting for more than one hour in Holtville; they led to the issuance of a Severe Thunderstorm Warning which was issued at 1352PST. The warning remained in effect until 1445PST.

Every storm recorded in Imperial 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
Rico1.0 miles22
Perrys Corner3.5 miles22
Meloland3.6 miles22
Fuller3.7 miles22
Date City3.9 miles21
Watermans Corner4.1 miles22
Sandia5.3 miles21
Anza6.3 miles22

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 HoltvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q631666The 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 1660761. 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.