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Orange Cove, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Orange Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93646. The Survey maps it on the Orange Cove South quadrangle. 9,649 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Orange Cove 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 Orange Cove, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Orange Cove, surveyed 1922

On record in Orange Cove

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Orange Cove grew from 9,078 to 9,649 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
20109,078
20209,649+571 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Orange Cove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,127 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism50
Equipment and vehicle use33
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1
Smoking1

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 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTulare UnitALTA#5
9 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHILLS
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresFresno-Kings UnitHILLS VALLEY
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY #71
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 9367
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitCRAWFORD AV /E JEFFERSON
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitNAVEL
5 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTulare UnitTORIO

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Orange Cove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite. 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
Dinuba Magnesite Co.MagnesitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange Cove in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
May 2009Thunderstorm WindOrange Cove$60,000County officials reported a large tree downed onto a house from severe thunderstorm winds.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOrange Cove$5,000Thunderstorm wind blew down trees and powerlines near Orange Cove in Fresno County. Further damage was caused by small hail (less than 3/4" diameter) on crops from Fresno to Visalia including the communities of Reedley...Dinuba...Orosi...Exeter...Kingsburg...and Farmersville. Fresno County estimated $16.4M damage with $14.8M occurring in the Reedley area alone. The following were estimated as being damaged: 4000 acres citrus...152 acres apples...127 acres grapes...and a number of other stone fruit crops.
January 2023FloodOrange Cove-Public report of a canal overflowing onto the roadway on eastbound Adams Ave. just east of Wakefield Ave.
January 2023FloodOrange Cove-Public report of roadway flooding on Anchor Ave. just north of Adams Ave which resulted in Anchor Ave. being closed.
January 2023FloodOrange Cove-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Summer Ave. west of Orange Cove.
February 2023FloodOrange Cove-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the intersection of Park Blvd. and Hills Valley Rd. in Orange Cove.
May 2002HailOrange Cove-While the largest hail fell in the vicinity of Orange Cove...frequent lightning with this event continued at least until 1801 PDT based on spotter reports.
May 2000Heavy RainOrange Cove-no account filed

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
Navelencia5.6 miles23
Reedley7.5 miles23
Wahtoke8.5 miles23
Yokuts Valley8.7 miles24
Cella8.8 miles23
Lacjac9.1 miles23
Uva9.3 miles23
Minkler10.3 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 Orange CoveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q83845The 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 277569. 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.