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La Vina, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Madera Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93637. The Survey maps it on the Madera quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

La Vina within Madera County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of La Vina, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of La Vina, surveyed 1922

Population over time

2 figures

La Vina grew from 279 to 637 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
2010279
2020637+358 (+128%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of La Vina between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,343 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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/undetermined97
Equipment and vehicle use41
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitRDSD 136
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa Unit24
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitMAD 1665
5 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitRS#258
4 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitGRENACHE AV MADERA_CITY
29 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitSKATES
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE 12176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of La Vina: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
San Joaquin RiverSand and Gravel, Construction, SilverUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madera 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
Italian Swiss Colony3.5 miles16
Ripperdan3.5 miles21
Parkwood4.7 miles16
Borden5.6 miles16
Madera6.2 miles16
Parksdale6.5 miles16
Irrigosa6.6 miles19
Bonita6.9 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.

Wikipedia article on La VinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6645119The 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 226721. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.