BlockMidvalley, California
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Tulare census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93277. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.
Then and now
1926 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1926 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Visalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Goshen 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
426 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 426 fires within 5 miles of Midvalley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 101 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 | 193 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 101 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 67 |
| Smoking | 33 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | PITTS |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TULARE CO #91 |
| 24 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | STATE CA #64 |
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | UNION PACIFIC #15 |
| 20 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TULARE CO. #76 |
| 2 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Tulare Unit | CALIFORNIA#64 |
| 18 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661024. 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.