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.
Then and now
1894 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1894 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresLinden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,784 | |
| 2020 | 1,863 | +79 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1908 USGS Linden quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Bellota quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Bellota quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Linden quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1968 USGS Linden quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Linden quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 15 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | ESCALON |
| 13 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 5 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 17 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | COOK |
| 16 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | not named |
| 9 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 13 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | FLOOD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linden | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Bellota Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Miller | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Warner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Linden | - | Two funnel clouds were observed northeast of Bellotta, Twitter Report. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Linden | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peters | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Bellota (historical) | 4.3 miles | 24 | |
| Waterloo | 5.5 miles | 24 | |
| Orford | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| Farmington | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Morada | 8.7 miles | 24 | |
| Garden Acres | 8.7 miles | 20 | |
| Collegeville | 8.7 miles | 20 |
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 Linden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3306085 | The 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.











