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Oro Loma, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Firebaugh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93622. The Survey maps it on the Dos Palos quadrangle. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

Oro Loma within Fresno County

Then and now

1913 to 1982

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.

Topographic sheet of Oro Loma, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Oro Loma, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Oro Loma between 1992 and 2019, burning about 17,016 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitI-5
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU # 10578
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitRUSSELL
19 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaCAFKU11933
19 September 2004Naturalunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaCAFKU11943
14 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitI-5
12 September 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitW NEES AV FIREBAUGH
9 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFresno-Kings UnitNEES

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oro Loma in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 flood, 3 heavy rain. 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
March 2023FloodOro Loma-California Highway Patrol reported southbound Interstate 5 was flooded south of Little Panoche Rd.
January 2021FloodOro Loma-California Highway Patrol reported mud and rock debris covering part of Little Panoche Road just west of the I-5 intersection.
April 2020FloodOro Loma-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the intersection of W. Shields Ave. and N. Russell Ave.
May 2016Heavy RainOro Loma-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding at the intersection of West Nees Avenue and North Russel Avenue at 1745 PST.
May 2016Heavy RainOro Loma-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding at West Shields Avenue and North Russel Avenue northwest of Wood Ranch at 1757 PST.
May 2016Heavy RainOro Loma-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding at West Nees Avenue and Poleline Road south of Hamburg Farms at 1810 PST.
May 1998FloodOro Loma-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
Oxalis7.6 miles21
Wood Ranch10.1 miles22
Firebaugh12.6 miles20
Benito14.3 miles20
Cromir15.4 miles20
Mercey Hot Springs15.7 miles21
Arbios17.4 miles20
Mendota18.9 miles20

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 Oro LomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7103686The 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 252757. 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.