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Parkwood, California

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Madera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93637. The Survey maps it on the Madera quadrangle. 2,307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Parkwood within Madera 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 Parkwood, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Parkwood, surveyed 1922

Population over time

2 figures

Parkwood grew from 2,268 to 2,307 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
20102,268
20202,307+39 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

1,685 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,685 fires within 5 miles of Parkwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,341 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 217 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/undetermined911
Equipment and vehicle use218
Arson/incendiarism217
Misuse of fire by a minor127
Debris and open burning122
Smoking70
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitN D ST / ADELL ST
9 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitMADERA CITY #1769
9 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitMAD#1833
8 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionAUSTIN ST MADERA_ACRES
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitRD 32 / AVE 12
8 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitMAD 1672
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitMFD1789
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitMAD. 1681

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Parkwood: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Trigo PitClayProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Solo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madera 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
Borden1.0 miles16
Parksdale1.8 miles16
Madera2.5 miles16
Italian Swiss Colony3.3 miles16
Lankershim (historical)3.3 miles19
Storey3.5 miles16
Irrigosa3.9 miles19
Trigo4.6 miles19

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 ParkwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301618The 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 1867049. 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.