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Lemoore, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lemoore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93245. The Survey maps it on the Lemoore quadrangle. 27,038 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Lemoore within Kings County

Then and now

1927 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lemoore, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Lemoore, surveyed 1927

Population over time

2 figures

Lemoore grew from 24,531 to 27,038 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
201024,531
202027,038+2,507 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Lemoore between 1992 and 2018, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined28
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
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 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unitnot named
3 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
8 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 July 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 July 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 Kings County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemoore in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 4 flood, 4 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
December 2010FloodLemoore$75,000Heavy rain caused widespread urban and poor drainage flooding on the morning of the 29th across much of the San Joaquin Valley. Especially hard hit were the metro areas of Fresno, Visalia, and Bakersfield, and the adjacent foothills.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindLemoore$50,000Afternoon convective activity on the 14th provided wind gusts to 40 MPH at 1610 PST damaging powerlines and dropping service to 1800 electric customers in the Lemoore area.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLemoore$1,000A trained spotter reported that thunderstorm wind gusts blew down his fence.
November 2014Heavy RainLemoore-An apartment roof collapsed due to heavy rain. Reported by local media via twitter. Rain estimated 0.75 inches from combination of nearby ASOS and COCORAHS reports.
May 1998FloodLemoore-Early convective activity on this day led to heavy rain...enough to cause street flooding in East Kings County. No damage reported.
March 1998FloodLemoore-Small hail (less than 1/2") and torrential rain accompanying a late afternoon thunderstorm led to street flooding in downtown Lemoore around 1600 PST.
March 1998FloodLemoore-A thunderstorm brought very heavy rain to the city of Lemoore. The amount of water overwhelmed the city drain system and water went gutter to gutter across downtown business area streets. Reports of 1.78" of rain occurred with the thunderstorm's passage.
March 1994Tornado (F0)Lemoore-Powerful thunderstorms rolled through the central San Joaquin Valley spawning a funnel cloud and a tornado along with damaging hail. The funnel cloud was reported by two weather spotters. The tornado was reported to have touched down for only about 15 seconds and no damage was reported. The hail and strong winds caused $6 million in crop damage. Almond trees were toppled and there was serious damage to citrus crops, strawberries, and grapes.
March 2006Heavy RainLemoore-no account filed
April 2005LightningLemoore-no account filed
April 2005HailLemoore-no account filed
April 2005Funnel CloudLemoore-no account filed
April 2005Heavy RainLemoore-no account filed
December 2003Heavy RainLemoore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kings 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
Cimarron1.6 miles19
Orion (historical)2.3 miles17
Rossi2.7 miles19
Halls Corner3.1 miles19
Armona4.1 miles17
Cuneo (historical)4.5 miles21
Grangeville4.9 miles17
Lethent (historical)5.4 miles19

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 LemooreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986940The 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 1660905. 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.