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Las Palmas, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fresno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93727. The Survey maps it on the Clovis quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Las Palmas within Fresno County

Then and now

1923 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Las Palmas, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Las Palmas, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

883 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 883 fires within 5 miles of Las Palmas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,061 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 98 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/undetermined561
Arson/incendiarism98
Equipment and vehicle use88
Debris and open burning62
Misuse of fire by a minor45
Smoking19
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitWILLOW
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11182
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11600

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

4 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Las Palmas in 4 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLas Palmas$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a large tree branch in the southbound lane of S. Clovis Ave. near the intersection of E. Butler Ave.
February 2023FloodLas Palmas$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a tree downed on the roadway on Butler Ave. west of Clovis Ave.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLas Palmas$500California Highway Patrol reported a large tree branch in the roadway on E. White Ave. near the intersection of N. Villa Ave.
January 2023FloodLas Palmas-California Highway Patrol reported a tree washed up on on the roadway on N. Manilla Ave. in Fresno.

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
Cameo0.5 miles22
Sunnyside0.6 miles20
Granz (historical)0.9 miles20
Bronge (historical)1.1 miles22
Vanris (historical)1.3 miles22
Fort Camp (historical)1.5 miles22
Tarpey2.1 miles22
Burness2.3 miles22

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 Las PalmasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6492372The 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 252719. 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.