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Huron, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Huron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93234. The Survey maps it on the Huron quadrangle. 6,206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Huron within Fresno County

Then and now

1912 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huron, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Huron, surveyed 1912

Population over time

2 figures

Huron fell from 6,754 to 6,206 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
20106,754
20206,206-548 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Huron between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,533 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 75 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/undetermined115
Arson/incendiarism75
Equipment and vehicle use30
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Debris and open burning16
Smoking4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitAQUEDUCT
6 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitELEVENTH ST / O ST
5 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHURON
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitLASSEN
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionNINTH
27 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHURON 44
26 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionGIFFIN
25 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHURON # 50

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huron in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 11 flood, 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHuron$50,000Multiple trees and power poles were reported downed near the intersection of Gale Ave. and Lassen Ave. south of Huron.
February 2011FloodHuron$2,000The California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Gale Avenue at Lassen Avenue.
February 2023FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported the Gale Ave. and SR 269 exchange was completely flooded.
January 2021FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding due to heavy rain at the intersection of SR 269 and Gale Ave. near Huron.
January 2021FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding due to heavy rain along SR 198 just west of SR 269 near Huron.
February 2019FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on State Route 269 which resulted in the road being closed north of State Route 198 near Huron.
February 2019FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported State Route 269 was closed north of State Route 198 due to heavy rainfall which flooded the road.
January 2017FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Highway 269 near Highway 198 north of Huron.
January 2017FloodHuron-Broadcast Media reported through Twitter a video showing road flooding on Lassen Avenue between Mitchell Avenue and Marmon Avenue north of Huron.
January 2017FloodHuron-California Highway Patrol reported road closure of Highway 269 near Highway 198 north of Huron.
January 2011FloodHuron-CHP reported State Route 269 closed between State Route 198 and Huron due to flooding.
March 1999Funnel CloudHuron-With thunderstorm activity prevalent this day in Interior California, a funnel cloud was observed just west of the town of Huron in Fresno County.
May 1998FloodHuron-Thunderstorm activity during the 4th and early on the 5th again provided saturated soils in West Fresno County. With locally heavy rain from thunderstorm activity late on the 4th, water from Arroyo Pasajero threatened Huron's west side. Low dikes were built which prevented water from entering the town to any great depth. Rainfall reports over the calendar day of 1.92 inches were reported by a Coalinga spotter (15 miles WSW).
March 2005Heavy RainHuron-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHuron-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainHuron-no account filed
March 2001Flash FloodHuron-no account filed
March 1998HailHuron-no account filed

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
Westhaven6.0 miles20
Turk6.7 miles22
Vanguard8.4 miles19
Calflax9.6 miles19
Oilfields11.7 miles25
Ora12.4 miles25
Westside13.8 miles18
Coalinga14.3 miles25

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 HuronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2649652The 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 1652725. 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.