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Jamesan, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the San Joaquin-Tranquillity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93630. The Survey maps it on the Jamesan quadrangle. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Jamesan within Fresno County

Then and now

1924 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jamesan, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Jamesan, 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Jamesan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,473 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-11214
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitS DENVER AV /S JAMES RD
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitW WHITESBRIDGE AV /N NAPA
29 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU #41957
19 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit40392
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU 8288
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitBRIDGE
25 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamesan in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 funnel cloud. 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 2011Funnel CloudJamesan-A funnel cloud was reported by a trained weather spotter.

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
Ingle2.5 miles18
Fresno City (historical)4.9 miles18
Tranquillity5.4 miles18
San Joaquin7.9 miles15
Kerman8.0 miles15
Mendota9.4 miles20
Caldwell (historical)10.3 miles15
Arbios10.7 miles20

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 Q6146089The 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 1658850. 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.