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Raisin City, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Caruthers-Raisin City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93652. The Survey maps it on the Raisin quadrangle. 303 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 236 feet above sea level.

Raisin City within Fresno County

Then and now

1925 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Raisin City, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Raisin City, surveyed 1925

Population over time

2 figures

Raisin City fell from 380 to 303 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
2010380
2020303-77 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Raisin City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 321 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
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 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU 38855
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitCORN
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitW DINUBA AV /S VALENTINE
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitADAMS
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitNEBRASKA
26 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitF.K.U.10223
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitW MANNING AV FRESNO
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionNEBRASKA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raisin City in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindRaisin City$10,000California Highway Patrol reported power lines in the road on Westlawn Ave. near the intersection of Nebraska Ave.
March 2023FloodRaisin City$5,000Public report of downed power lines over on westbound Lincoln Ave. just east of Polk Ave. The pole snapped at it's base as a result of flooding.
January 2017FloodRaisin City-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding southeast of Raisin City on Dinuba Avenue near Henderson Road.

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
McMullin (historical)5.1 miles19
Caruthers5.6 miles20
Easton6.9 miles21
Elm View7.1 miles20
West Park7.9 miles21
Bowles8.1 miles20
Oleander8.2 miles21
Burrel9.0 miles22

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 Raisin CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2623983The 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 1659457. 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.