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Parlier, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Parlier-Del Rey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93648. The Survey maps it on the Selma quadrangle. 14,576 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Parlier within Fresno County

Then and now

1924 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Parlier, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Parlier, surveyed 1924

Population over time

2 figures

Parlier grew from 14,494 to 14,576 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
201014,494
202014,576+82 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

474 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 474 fires within 5 miles of Parlier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,751 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined237
Debris and open burning89
Arson/incendiarism58
Equipment and vehicle use46
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitE BULAH AVE PARLIER
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionE LINCOLN AVE /S GREENWOO
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionS BETHEL AVE /E LINCOLN A
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitACADEMY
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFRANK 2
7 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitNEWMARK
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionS REED AV REEDLEY
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionRIVER

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 Parlier: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Industrial Asphalt IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mont Lasalle Vineyard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parlier in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 flood, 2 lightning, 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
April 2005Heavy RainParlier$250,000no account filed
June 1998LightningParlier$50,000Lightning struck a house causing damage...but no injuries. The thunderstorm activity...between gusty wind and torrential rain... led to the disruption of power to over 25,000 residents in Central Fresno County.
February 2023FloodParlier-California Highway Patrol reported the eastbound lane of Manning Ave. in Parlier is flooded.
March 2023FloodParlier-California Highway Patrol reported E. Manning Ave. flooded at S. Academy Ave in Parlier. A car went through the intersection and spun out.
May 2020FloodParlier-Public report of roadway flooding and half inch hail in Parlier.
February 2019FloodParlier-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Manning Ave. between the bridge and Zediker Ave. in Parlier.
February 2018Tornado (EF0)Parlier-A tornado briefly touched down in rural farmland between Riverbend Ave. and Goodfellow Ave. southeast of Sanger and was captured on video and relayed to the NWS by a media source.
March 1998LightningParlier-Reported by spotter during storm chase.
April 2005HailParlier-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
Miley1.3 miles21
Fargo (historical)1.9 miles19
Uva2.0 miles23
Lacjac2.3 miles23
Reedley4.2 miles23
Del Rey4.8 miles19
Selma5.3 miles21
Reka (historical)5.5 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 ParlierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985259The 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 1659348. 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.