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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.

London 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 London, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of London, surveyed 1927

Population over time

2 figures

London 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,869
20201,518-351 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

253 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined71
Arson/incendiarism68
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning22
Smoking16
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitKIMURA
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitJOST
4 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitNIELSON
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE CO#86
30 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTulare UnitSINGH
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitALTA #9
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY # 83
28 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU 12073

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2024FloodLondon-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Ave. 360 and Rd. 76.
November 2024FloodLondon-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Rd. 80 near Ave. 384 4S Dinuba.
March 2023FloodLondon-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Ave. 360 east of Rd. 80.
February 2019Funnel CloudLondon-Public reports of a funnel cloud between Dinuba and Visalia.

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
Delft Colony2.5 miles23
Traver2.6 miles21
Smyrna (historical)5.0 miles22
Dinuba5.5 miles23
Monson5.8 miles19
Ivory6.5 miles23
Enson6.8 miles23
North Dinuba6.8 miles23

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 LondonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q586353The 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.