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Locans, California

20 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 Malaga quadrangle. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Locans 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 Locans, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Locans, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

656 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 656 fires within 5 miles of Locans between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,096 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 71 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/undetermined364
Equipment and vehicle use90
Debris and open burning73
Arson/incendiarism71
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural1
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 2018Missing 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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11182
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11600
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitDE WOLF
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFIELD
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitSOUTH
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHIGHWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locans in 2 storm reports in 2023: 1 flood, 1 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLocans$500California Highway Patrol reported a large tree branch on the roadway near the intersection of S. Armstrong Ave. and E. Butler Ave.
January 2023FloodLocans-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of S. Fowler Ave. and E. Butler 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
Butler (historical)1.0 miles20
Ivesta1.4 miles20
Lone Star1.9 miles20
Mattei2.2 miles20
Wolf2.4 miles20
Eshel (historical)2.4 miles20
Sunnyside2.6 miles20
Clotho2.8 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.

Wikidata item Q6664717The 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 1658990. 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.