Merced, California

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1983

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

• Bank of Italy, Mercedlisted 2004
• Buhach Grammar Schoollisted 1983
• Maj. George Beecher Cook Houselisted 1983
• Kaehler-Rector Houselisted 1982
• Leggett Houselisted 1979
• Thomas H. Leggett Houselisted 1982
• Merced County High Schoollisted 1984
• Merced Theatrelisted 2009
• Tioga Hotellisted 1980
• U.S. Post Officelisted 1983
• Merced County Courthouselisted 1975
• Strand Theaterlisted 2021

Merced grew from 78,958 to 86,333 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.

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.

• 1914 USGS Merced quadrangle1:31680
• 1917 USGS Merced quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Merced quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Merced quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Merced quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Merced quadrangle1:62500
• 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Merced quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,155 fires within 5 miles of Merced between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,394 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 88 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fergus
• Bear Creek
• Kadota
• Bellevue (historical)
• Buhach
• Hoff (historical)

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merced in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 6 heavy rain, 5 funnel cloud, 3 tornado, 3 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Merced County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659751. 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.