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Kingsburg, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kingsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93631. The Survey maps it on the Selma quadrangle. 12,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 302 feet above sea level.

Kingsburg 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 Kingsburg, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Kingsburg, surveyed 1924

Population over time

2 figures

Kingsburg grew from 11,382 to 12,380 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
201011,382
202012,380+998 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Kingsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,573 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined129
Equipment and vehicle use56
Debris and open burning52
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionVAN HORN
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitE MOUNTAIN VIEW AV /S BET
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitKIMURA
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMOUNTAIN
6 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMOUNTAIN VIEW
6 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMT VIEW
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitE NEBRASKA AV /S ACADEMY
4 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitNIELSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsburg in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 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
February 2024FloodKingsburg-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the intersection of S. Mendocino Ave. and E. Rose Ave.
May 2019FloodKingsburg-California Highway Patrol reported water 2 feet deep between Kingsburg and Selma.

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
Wineland2.5 miles21
Selma5.0 miles21
Wildflower6.9 miles20
Parlier6.9 miles21
Miley7.5 miles21
Lacjac7.7 miles23
Reedley7.9 miles23
Uva8.0 miles23

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 KingsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q779614The 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 277533. 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.