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.
Then and now
1912 to 1987The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresHuron 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,754 | |
| 2020 | 6,206 | -548 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Coalinga quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1933 USGS Huron quadrangle1:31680
- 1937 USGS Huron quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Polvadero Gap quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Huron quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS Coalinga quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
271 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 115 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 75 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 30 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | AQUEDUCT |
| 6 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | ELEVENTH ST / O ST |
| 5 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | HURON |
| 4 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | LASSEN |
| 28 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | NINTH |
| 27 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | HURON 44 |
| 26 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | GIFFIN |
| 25 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | HURON # 50 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huron | $50,000 | Multiple trees and power poles were reported downed near the intersection of Gale Ave. and Lassen Ave. south of Huron. |
| February 2011 | Flood | Huron | $2,000 | The California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Gale Avenue at Lassen Avenue. |
| February 2023 | Flood | Huron | - | California Highway Patrol reported the Gale Ave. and SR 269 exchange was completely flooded. |
| January 2021 | Flood | Huron | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding due to heavy rain at the intersection of SR 269 and Gale Ave. near Huron. |
| January 2021 | Flood | Huron | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding due to heavy rain along SR 198 just west of SR 269 near Huron. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Huron | - | 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 2019 | Flood | Huron | - | California Highway Patrol reported State Route 269 was closed north of State Route 198 due to heavy rainfall which flooded the road. |
| January 2017 | Flood | Huron | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Highway 269 near Highway 198 north of Huron. |
| January 2017 | Flood | Huron | - | Broadcast Media reported through Twitter a video showing road flooding on Lassen Avenue between Mitchell Avenue and Marmon Avenue north of Huron. |
| January 2017 | Flood | Huron | - | California Highway Patrol reported road closure of Highway 269 near Highway 198 north of Huron. |
| January 2011 | Flood | Huron | - | CHP reported State Route 269 closed between State Route 198 and Huron due to flooding. |
| March 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Huron | - | 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 1998 | Flood | Huron | - | 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 2005 | Heavy Rain | Huron | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huron | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Heavy Rain | Huron | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Flash Flood | Huron | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Huron | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Huron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2649652 | The 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.











