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Hub, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 93656. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Hub within Kings County

Then and now

1924 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hub, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Hub, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Hub between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined83
Equipment and vehicle use40
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHAY
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHWY 41 /W HARLAN AV
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-38673
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit3FKU10960
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHIGHWAY
3 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitRIVERDALE #15
28 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-41838
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitWALNUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hub in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 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 2023FloodHub-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Excelsior Ave. and Ave. 22.

Every storm recorded in Kings 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
Gepford0.3 miles18
Cornwell (historical)1.5 miles18
Hasset (historical)4.1 miles18
Halls Corner4.1 miles19
Hardwick4.8 miles18
Kimble (historical)5.4 miles17
Kingston (historical)6.3 miles18
Grangeville6.7 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q5926592The 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 243707. 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.