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Loma, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Visalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93274. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Visalia quadrangle.

Loma within Tulare 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 Loma, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Loma, surveyed 1927

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

346 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of Loma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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/undetermined214
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use32
Smoking24
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Debris and open burning12
Natural1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare Unitnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitAUSTIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Loma: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Brown Cement WorksSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loma in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindLoma$20,000Several small trees down in the southwest portion of the city of Visalia due to a severe thunderstorm.
February 2023FloodLoma-California Highway Patrol reported Rd. 100 south of Parkway Rd. was completely flooded.

Every storm recorded in Tulare 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
Swall1.2 miles22
Higby1.9 miles23
Elba2.3 miles22
Ambler3.5 miles23
Hypericum3.8 miles20
Imhoff3.8 miles22
Rector4.0 miles20
Spinks Corner4.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 252925. 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.