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Linden, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Linden-Farmington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95236. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle. 1,863 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Linden within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1894 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Linden, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Linden, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Linden grew from 1,784 to 1,863 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
20101,784
20201,863+79 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Linden between 1992 and 2017, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitESCALON
13 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
17 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitCOOK
16 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
13 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitFLOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Linden: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
LindenGoldUnknown
Bellota PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
MillerSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Warner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 1 hail, 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
January 2019Funnel CloudLinden-Two funnel clouds were observed northeast of Bellotta, Twitter Report.
April 2000HailLinden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin 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
Peters3.4 miles17
Bellota (historical)4.3 miles24
Waterloo5.5 miles24
Orford6.4 miles20
Farmington7.7 miles17
Morada8.7 miles24
Garden Acres8.7 miles20
Collegeville8.7 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.

Wikipedia article on LindenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306085The 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 277540. 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.

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.