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Malaga, 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 93725. The Survey maps it on the Malaga quadrangle. 884 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Malaga 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 Malaga, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Malaga, surveyed 1923

Population over time

2 figures

Malaga fell from 947 to 884 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
2010947
2020884-63 (-7%)

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

1,084 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,084 fires within 5 miles of Malaga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,698 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 104 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/undetermined695
Equipment and vehicle use114
Arson/incendiarism104
Debris and open burning96
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Smoking27
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2018Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionADAMS
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitAMERICAN
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMARTIN L KING JR BL FRES
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitN ARMSTRONG AVE FOWLER
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitWILLOW
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitORANGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Malaga: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver. 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
Fred Santoni Lonestar MillGold, SilverUnknown
Pacific Cement and AggregatesSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malaga in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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
December 2025FloodMalaga-CHP reports flooding at Ave 72 at Rd 132.
December 2019FloodMalaga-Fresno Police reported roadway flooding at the intersection of Jansen Ave. and Willow 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
Cecile1.5 miles20
Calwa2.3 miles21
Mattei2.5 miles20
Goldleaf2.8 miles20
Eshel (historical)3.0 miles20
Lone Star3.0 miles20
Oleander3.6 miles21
Easton3.8 miles21

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 MalagaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q159162The 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 1659038. 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.