London, California
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dinuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93618. The Survey maps it on the Traver quadrangle. 1,518 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1927 to 1993The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresLondon fell from 1,869 to 1,518 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 | 1,869 | |
| 2020 | 1,518 | -351 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 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.
- 1927 USGS Traver quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Traver quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Visalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Traver quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Visalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
253 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of London between 1992 and 2020, burning about 695 acres in total. None started naturally. 68 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 | 71 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 68 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Tulare Unit | KIMURA |
| 7 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | JOST |
| 4 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Tulare Unit | NIELSON |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TULARE CO#86 |
| 30 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Tulare Unit | SINGH |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | ALTA #9 |
| 29 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TULARE COUNTY # 83 |
| 28 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | FKU 12073 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names London in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | Flood | London | - | Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Ave. 360 and Rd. 76. |
| November 2024 | Flood | London | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Rd. 80 near Ave. 384 4S Dinuba. |
| March 2023 | Flood | London | - | California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Ave. 360 east of Rd. 80. |
| February 2019 | Funnel Cloud | London | - | Public reports of a funnel cloud between Dinuba and Visalia. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delft Colony | 2.5 miles | 23 | |
| Traver | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Smyrna (historical) | 5.0 miles | 22 | |
| Dinuba | 5.5 miles | 23 | |
| Monson | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Ivory | 6.5 miles | 23 | |
| Enson | 6.8 miles | 23 | |
| North Dinuba | 6.8 miles | 23 |
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 London | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q586353 | 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 1652746. 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.











