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Navelencia, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Reedley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93654. It lies near Granite Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wahtoke quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Navelencia within Fresno County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Navelencia, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Navelencia, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Navelencia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,351 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined113
Equipment and vehicle use58
Debris and open burning55
Arson/incendiarism37
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFRANK 2
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 9367
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionS REED AV REEDLEY
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitCRAWFORD AV /E JEFFERSON
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitWAKE
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFresno-Kings UnitKERN FIRE
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-39523
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitNAVEL

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 Navelencia: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Asbestos. 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
H H MinerAsbestosUnknown
SecrestStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Navelencia in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 flood, 2 debris flow, 1 hail. 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
January 2023FloodNavelencia-Public report of a large boulder in the roadway blocking eastbound lanes of SR 180 just east of Cove Ave.
March 2023FloodNavelencia-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on SR 180 at Cove Rd.
March 2023FloodNavelencia-California Highway Patrol reported SR 180 at Alta Ave was flooded.
January 2021Debris FlowNavelencia-California Highway Patrol reproted a large boulder blocking the east bound lane of SR 180.
December 2021Debris FlowNavelencia-California Highway Patrol reported a rockslide along SR 180 west of Squaw Valley.
February 2019FloodNavelencia-California Highway Patrol reported 6 to 8 inches of water rushing over the roadway on State Route 180 near Cove Ave.
May 2002HailNavelencia-Hail size as reported by a storm spotter ranged from 1/2" to 3/4".

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
Cella3.7 miles23
Wahtoke3.9 miles23
Minkler4.8 miles23
Oakhurst (historical)5.3 miles23
Orange Cove5.6 miles22
Gravesboro6.3 miles30
Centerville6.9 miles23
Reedley6.9 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 NavelenciaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6982259The 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 229434. 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.